CNN gained exclusive access to the facility, now home to Generium Pharmaceutical, which has been contracted to scale up production of the Russian vaccine against Covid-19, Sputnik V.The vast high-tech complex is one of seven new production centers across the country. Vials of vaccine are packed at the Generium Pharmaceutical plant, which is gearing up production of Sputnik V.Every step in the production process had to be carefully designed and calibrated, including vast water filtration systems, to mass-produce the brand-new vaccine. “In principle, the process of manufacturing was known on a small, lab-scale, but making it on a large industrial scale is another universe,” Dmitry Poteryaev, chief science officer at Generium told CNN.

Source: Egypt Independent February 24, 2021 13:41 UTC