African leaders, healthcare experts, biotech companies and pharmaceutical multinationals on Tuesday met for the second day of a virtual conference on ramping up the local manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines. The initiative will give impetus to the continent's challenging quest of securing adequate supplies and provide a template for other treatments in the future.
"People who do not have their own freedom for vaccine manufacturing, diagnostics and therapeutics do not guarantee their own health security," said Dr John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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