Nairobi - Pharmaceutical companies should sell Covid-19 vaccines to African countries at discounted rates and allow them to be produced locally to potentially cut costs, the head of the continent's disease control body said on Thursday.
Many African states are relying on Covax, a global Covid-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization , which is working to lower prices for poor and middle income countries. "The Covax facility does not take care of delivery, it takes care of the buying of the vaccines. But the greatest challenge for any vaccination programme is how do you deliver it to the needy in a timely fashion," Nkengasong said,
In November, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is also the chairperson of the African Union, said $12 billion was needed for the vaccination programme.
petermoyo6 You can’t “sell Covid19”
African government are failing us, instead of putting orders they want private pharmacy's to sell covid vaccine for us, but we keep voting for these useless cows, only thing they know is corruption
No thanks
I thought ACDC's chief was Freddy Mercury.
Selling Corona, I see.
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Of course. Why should we invest and build the structures to do this ourselves? Let the rest of the world do it for us, and we’ll just cry “we were bullied once”
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