Ontario Announces $4M Investment Towards mRNA Vaccine Production in Province

Ontario Announces $4M Investment Towards mRNA Vaccine Production in Province
Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement on health care with Health Minister Sylvia Jones in Toronto on Jan. 16, 2023. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press
Marnie Cathcart
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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.