Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced a $4 million investment to expand vaccine manufacturing capacities in Ontario to create respiratory mRNA vaccines.
At a May 4 press conference in Cambridge, Ont., Ford, along with Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Vic Fedeli, minister of economic development, job creation and trade, said the Ontario government would be investing $4 million from the Ontario Together Fund for the project, into a partnership between Moderna Inc. and Novocol Pharma.
In March 2021, Novocol said it received up to $32.7 million from the federal government for “fill-finish of sterile injectables including vaccines.”
The Canadian government also signed a long-term, 10-year deal with Moderna “to enhance pandemic preparedness,” Cambridge Liberal MP Brian May told the news conference….