BioNTech, Pfizer Join Race to Alleviate Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccine Ails

German biotech company BioNTech announced Tuesday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Rwandan government and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar of Kigali, Rwanda in regards to the construction of Africa’s first state-of-the-art mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility.