Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine will be partly produced in Cape Town for African countries.
The US pharmaceutical giant and BioNTech said they had reached an agreement under which Biovac will handle the final stages of manufacturing, starting next year.reported on Wednesday that the first African production deal for the Pfizer vaccine could help to increase supplies to the continent, where only 1.5% of people are fully immunised.
Health activists have called on vaccine manufacturers to transfer their technology to local producers in poorer parts of the world to ramp up production and alleviate shortages, the New York Times said.at Georgetown University, as calling the Biovac deal “deeply disappointing”.
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