The government on Monday invited the public to submit information ahead of a decision on whether to set up a locally based vaccine production facility that would end Israel's total reliance on imported vaccines.
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The country is "completely dependent on imported vaccines for any epidemics or pandemics," the statement read, adding that proposals for Israeli-based manufacturing on behalf of an international pharmacological company could be considered.
Israel rolled out COVID-19 vaccinations at a world-beating rate and has championed booster shots as a means of staving off resurgences of the virus. In March, it pledged joint production of COVID-19 vaccines with Austria and Denmark.
The initiative was described as a feasibility study by an Israeli inter-ministerial task force.
"The purpose... is to enable the team to examine the possible processes and commercial frameworks for the realization of independent ability to produce vaccines routinely, and the ability to adapt producing vaccines in the future," Accountant General Yali Rothenberg, who heads the team, said.
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