OTTAWA—The federal government will pump more than $190 million into the expansion of a Mississauga medical facility to boost Canada’s capacity to make specialized vaccines in the coming years, the Star has learned. The hope is that the expanded Resilience Biotechnologies facilities can fill that gap by offering major pharmaceutical the scale to mass-produce vaccines, the government source said. The federal government has blamed a lack of domestic capacity to mass-produce vaccines for why Canada has relied on foreign suppliers for its entire arsenal of COVID-19 shots so far. The federal government expects 4.5 million doses of those to arrive this week, the biggest weekly shipment since vaccines were first approved last December, Anand said Friday. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...

Source: thestar May 18, 2021 10:00 UTC