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Pfizer’s intention to proceed with a new investment in Thessaloniki was announced from the podium of the American Hellenic Chamber conference and in the presence of the Prime Minister, the Greek CEO of the pharmaceutical industry, Mr. Albert bourla.
It is a service center that will unite its innovation centers Pfizer they rely on accounting services such as central management of human resources. The Center, as Mr. Bourlas said, will have 350 people.
At the same time, he stressed that the first investment of the pharmaceutical industry, the innovation center, where digital solutions are essentially “married” to the effort for innovation in pharmacy, has started in a very dynamic way.
“We are absolutely happy for the talent that has been gathered there,” Burla said. As the center said at the end of the year will have 200 employees, several of whom will be Greeks abroad who wanted to return to Greece.
As Pfizer said, the plan is to double the capacity of the Innovation Center in the next few years.
“So suddenly we have a plan to 600 employees in Thessaloniki through two centers with the prospect of doubling it in the coming years ”, emphasized Mr. Bourlas, while wanting to emphasize that on the one hand there is talent, on the other hand the country’s policy is now friendly to foreign investment.
Not in local vaccine production.
However, a little earlier, Bourlas put an end to the scenarios that there could be local production of the coronavirus vaccine.
“It is a huge battle over time to meet global demand and any attempt to produce the vaccine in local factories would simply create huge delays, as we would have to start from scratch,” Burla said in response to a question from the president. of the Hellenic American Chamber Mr. Nick. Bakatselou on whether the vaccine could be produced in Greece.
Instructions to governments
At the same time, he outlined the steps governments must take so that a critical mass of the population has been vaccinated by the middle of next year.
“Governments must first guarantee distribution, immediately after receiving them, and plan who will be vaccinated first and who will follow. And they have to do it strategically listening to experts in order to reduce the weight in the population as quickly as possible,” he said and I add:
“Many governments, for example, are thinking of starting with hospitals or the elderly or inmates in nursing homes.”
“Second,” he said, “governments should not relax immediately given the pressure to open up the economy.” Use the vaccine as a tool. “The time to go back to normal is not far off, but it is definitely not now,” he said characteristically.
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