Moderna Announces Vaccine Production Facility to Be Built in the Montreal Area

Moderna Announces Vaccine Production Facility to Be Built in the Montreal Area
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Quebec Premier François Legault, left, tour a research lab at McGill University before an announcement of the opening of a Moderna vaccine production and research facility in Montreal, April 29, 2022. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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Moderna’s new vaccine factory in the Montreal area will be able to produce 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines a year and will help develop top scientific talent in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.

Trudeau was alongside Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel and Quebec Premier François Legault at McGill University to announce that the American vaccine maker plans to build its first factory in Canada.