World’s first fully liquid vaccine to be locally manufactured by CT-based Biovac

 World’s first fully liquid vaccine to be locally manufactured by CT-based Biovac.

19 NOVEMBER 2020 – Cape Town-based bio-pharmaceutical company Biovac has begun local manufacturing of global pharmaceutical company, Sanofi Pasteur’s six-in-one paediatric hexavalent vaccine, Hexaxim. 

This is the world’s first fully liquid vaccine. It was introduced in South Africa in 2015 where Biovac was labelling and packaging the vaccine. It has now been approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) for manufacturing under sterile conditions.