On the 11th (local time), Chairman Nuva Abuyan Moderna, who is visiting Italy, said that he had no plans to share the recipe to expand the supply of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
In an interview with the Associated Press on the same day, Abuyan said, "The management has come to the conclusion that the best way to increase global supply is to increase in-house production."
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Moderna to share vaccine manufacturing methods in order to expand the supply of vaccines to developing countries.
Pope Francis also met with President Abujan and asked that everyone be vaccinated.
“The reliable and effective way to create a high-quality vaccine in the next 6 to 9 months is for us to make it,” Abuyan said. It's from , and we know we can do it."
"It took less than a year to produce 1 billion doses from a zero vaccine production situation," he added.
However, in this interview, Abuyan reaffirmed in this interview that Moderna will continue to fulfill its promise not to exercise its patent rights during the pandemic a year ago.
In a recent criticism that Moderna exports most of its vaccines only to rich countries and neglects poor countries, he said, "We are supplying significant quantities to poor countries through our initial contracted US government." We are working with several countries,” he said.
Earlier, Moderna announced on the 7th that it would build a facility in Africa capable of producing hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine annually.
Regarding this, Chairman Abuyan said, "We hope that the final site will be selected as soon as possible. But it will take several years before the plant is built and put into operation."