UAE is manufacturing COVID-19 vaccine called Hayat-Vax

Gulf News

The vaccine, called Hayat-Vax [Hayat means life in Arabic], is the first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine in the region that will be manufactured by a newly created joint venture between Sinopharm CNBG, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and G42, the leading technology company based in Abu Dhabi.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/31weYE7  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #UAEnews #Covid19 #vaccine

Transcript

00:00In a historic move in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,

00:04the United Arab Emirates has announced that they started manufacturing the first UAE-made

00:10COVID-19 vaccine in the country. The vaccine, called Hayat Vax, Hayat means life in Arabic,

00:17is the first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine in the region that will be manufactured by a newly

00:22created joint venture between Sinopharm, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world,

00:28and G42, the leading technology company based in Abu Dhabi. The new vaccine plant,

00:34in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, will become operational this year and over

00:39its phased development will have a production capacity of 200 million doses per year across

00:45three filling lines and five automated packaging lines. The joint venture is already producing

00:51Hayat Vax with its partner Jofar in the UAE with an initial capacity of 2 million doses per month.

00:58Hayat Vax is the same Sinopharm inactivated vaccine that was officially registered by the

01:04UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on December 9, 2020 and subsequently in China by the Chinese

01:11Center for Drug Evaluation on December 30, 2020. The first ever made-in-the-UAE Hayat Vax COVID-19

01:18vaccine will turbocharge the UAE's leading vaccination program across 205 medical centers

01:24nationally. To read more, click the link below or log on to gulfnews.com

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended