Pandemic showcases Belgium as Europe`s Vaccine Valley
(WorldNews Belgium)

Wavre, Belgium, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Feb, 2021 ) :A small country with an outsize reputation in research and pharmaceuticals, Belgium has emerged with a strategic role in the world`s battle against the coronavirus. The drugs giants racing to develop and produce new vaccines at scale in record time are international, but many of their global supply chains intersect here. In 2019, before the pandemic, Belgium accounted for 13 percent of EU biopharmaceutical exports and 10 percent of research investment, with just 2.5 percent of the European Union`s population. Biopharma -- the extraction of a drug product from a biological culture -- is used in the production of many of the...