Arthur Greene
Africa is working with Europe to set up vaccine production hubs across Africa, including SA.
Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the The World Trade Organization (WTO), said on Monday during a virtual meeting that plans are in the works to also set up hubs in Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal.
“We have now seen that over-centralization of vaccine production capacity is incompatible with equitable access in a crisis situation,” Okonjo-Iweala said.
“Regional production hubs, in tandem with open supply chains offer a more promising path to preparedness for future health crisis.’’
It is hoped that the hubs will provide African nations with another supply chain of vaccines as vaccine production has so far heavily favoured the world’s richest countries.
SA has so far vaccinated two million people.
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