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South Africa Plans to Make mRNA Covid-19 Shots Under WHO Deal
- State-owned Biovac Institute to manufacture the vaccines
- Talks to date only taking place with smaller companies
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South Africa is planning to make vaccines locally using messenger RNA, the breakthrough technology of the global inoculation effort against Covid-19.
The manufacturing will be conducted by the state-owned Biovac Institute, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, told reporters Monday. That will be part of a broader vaccine technology-transfer hub in the country, he said.