Links ”between the Chile's Catholic University and the Sinovac laboratory have been strengthened over the past year and a half of joint work, Sánchez said. China's Sinovac Biotech laboratory is reportedly evaluating the possibility of manufacturing the immunizer in Chile in a joint effort with the local Pontifical Catholic University, Rector Ignacio Sánchez said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday. Sinovac intends to establish a vaccine manufacturing plant in Latin America and finds that our country can be a very good place, Sánchez said. The laboratory is looking specifically to produce the Coronavac vaccine in the region, it was reported.