Japanese drugmaker Takeda signed an agreement March 15 to use contract development and manufacturing company IDT Biologika's facility, which was previously reserved for Takeda’s dengue vaccine candidate, to manufacture Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
The facility, located in Dessau, Germany, will go back to producing Takeda's dengue vaccine candidate after a three-month period.
Takeda has agreed to help manufacture three different COVID-19 vaccines. The drugmaker has already begun manufacturing Moderna and Novavax vaccines to provide rapid and sustained COVID-19 vaccine access in Japan.
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