More Than Half a Billion Doses of Chinese Vaccines Will be Manufactured Overseas Every Year

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Chinese pharmaceutical companies have finalized production licensing agreements with seven countries around the world that will enable the production of just under 600 million COVID-19 vaccine doses every year, according to data from Bridge.

Bridge notes that at this point the manufacturing process is quite simple, with these production facilities largely re-packaging bulk quantities of vaccine ingredients imported from China, rather than making any vaccines from scratch.

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