China starts building COVID-19 vaccine production facility

China starts building COVID-19 vaccine production facility Xinhua21 Dec 2020, 22:51 GMT+10 KUNMING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — China started the construction on Monday of a plant for manufacturing an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, with production operations due to begin in eight months, according to local authorities. The facility in the city of Yuxi, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, is expected to produce 120 million doses per year in its first phase, with key manufacturing equipment and core ingredients all independently developed by China. The vaccine was approved by the National Medical Products Administration for clinical drug trials on June 19, 2020,…