SaudiVax and Merck team up to manufacture domestic Covid-19 vaccine for the Arabian peninsula - Endpoints News

As Sau­di Ara­bia works to get its do­mes­ti­cal­ly-pro­duced Covid-19 vac­cine in­to the arms of res­i­dents, it’s en­list­ed the help of Mer­ck to take on man­u­fac­tur­ing du­ties.

Mer­ck and Saudi­Vax will first con­cep­tu­al­ize the process and de­ter­mine the equip­ment need­ed be­fore fit­ting out the fa­cil­i­ty and work­ing out process de­vel­op­ment. Saudi­Vax em­ploy­ees will head to France to train at Mer­ck’s end-to-end GMP site in Mar­tillac, and its M Lab Col­lab­o­ra­tion Cen­ter in Mosheim.

“With more than 30 years of ex­pe­ri­ence de­sign­ing, build­ing and op­er­at­ing our own glob­al CD­MO net­work, we are pleased to sup­port Saudi­Vax in ful­fill­ing its mis­sion to lo­cal­ize the de­vel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing of vac­cines and ther­a­peu­tics in Sau­di Ara­bia,” Sébastien Rib­ault, head of end-to-end CD­MO Ser­vices at Mer­ck, said in a press re­lease. “This part­ner­ship brings to­geth­er our shared com­mit­ment to ex­pand ac­cess to life-sav­ing and life-en­hanc­ing ther­a­pies.”

Sau­di Ara­bia has been what Bloomberg News called a “dystopia for op­po­nents of vac­cine re­quire­ments.” As the Delta vari­ant sent oth­er coun­tries back in­to lock­down, Sau­di of­fi­cials have made vac­ci­na­tions prac­ti­cal­ly a ne­ces­si­ty, re­fus­ing ser­vice at gro­cery stores, schools, trav­el abroad and dis­al­low­ing work­ers to re­turn to work with­out vac­ci­na­tions.

The vac­cines will be Ha­lal and per­mit­ted un­der Is­lam­ic law, mak­ing Saudi­Vax the first to pro­duce such a jab. To do so, it will lever­age Mer­ck’s sin­gle-use tech­nol­o­gy and fo­cus on in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry re­quire­ments.

As of Tues­day, al­most 70% of Saud­is have re­ceived at least one jab of the vac­cine, and 21.6 mil­lion peo­ple have been ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed. The coun­try’s worst Covid-19 in­fec­tion stretch hap­pened in June 2020, when near­ly 4,300 peo­ple a day were in­fect­ed at its high point. Since Sep­tem­ber, the coun­try has av­er­aged few­er than 100 new cas­es a day.

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