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The Catalan laboratory Reig Jofre will start production in mid-June
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The EU says it will deliver to Spain “what it needs” to achieve immunity in summer
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The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, has highlighted this Friday that, of the 5.5 million doses of the covid-19 vaccine developed by Janssen that will arrive in Spain in April, 800,000 will be distributed in Catalonia. He said it at a press conference with the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, after visiting the factory of the Catalan pharmaceutical company Reig Jofre in Sant Joan Despí (Barcelona), where the ‘fill and finish’ of the vaccine developed by Janssen will be carried out.
In relation to production at the Reig Jofre factory, the minister has specified that the forecast is for the pharmaceutical company to start in mid-June and, although he has ruled out giving figures on the volume of vaccines to be produced, he has claimed that the company “can exceed one million doses a day.”
Immunity “in summer”
The European commissioner has assured that they will deliver to Spain “what it needs” to achieve the immunization of about 70% of the population in summer.
Breton has emphasized that they are “working very hard” with companies and member countries to ensure that the planned deadlines are met.
The numbers
The company will start manufacturing the antidote in mid-June and expects to have 55 million doses in the second quarter. This makes Europe the leading producer of vaccines.
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The company will start in the second quarter of this year the production of the vaccine in its new plant of sterile injectables, which has involved an investment of more than 30 million.
Reig Jofre, which has reserved 80% of its production capacity to start manufacturing the vaccine against covid-19, it will be able to produce about 300 million injections per year.
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