Six African countries to get own mRNA vaccine production: WHO
Currently only 1 per cent of the vaccines used in Africa are produced on the continent of some 1.3 billion people.
SWITZERLAND: Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organisation said Friday, with the continent largely shut out of access to COVID-19 jabs.
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia were selected as the first recipients of technology from the WHO’s global mRNA vaccine hub, in a push to ensure Africa can make its own jabs to fight the COVID and other diseases.
“No other event like the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that reliance on a few companies to supply global public goods is limiting, and dangerous,” WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
– NDTV
Monday, February 21, 2022 – 01:00