The decision by the couple, founders of a small German company called BioNTech, gave birth to Operation Lightspeed in which the scientists in the company diverted all their resources from cancer therapy research to finding a vaccine to stop Covid-19.
As BioNTech and other pharmaceutical companies leapt into action in search of the winning formula, Germany s army of "Mittelstand" companies and other bigger manufacturing and logistics experts would soon prove crucial.
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Breakfast, freezers, Lego: The BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trail in Germany
CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, Ugur Sahin, answers journalists questions after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved its COVID-19 vaccine, at the company headquarters in Mainz, Germany December 22, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski)
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BERLIN: It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, we need to fire the starting gun on this .
Sahin had concluded from a publication describing coronavirus cases in Wuhan . that there was a high probability that a pandemic could be imminent , Tureci recounted.
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