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The European Union has agreed to send millions of coronavirus vaccine doses made in South Africa back to the continent, AFP reports.
South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, which produces the Johnson & Johnson vaccine under a contract with the US pharma giant, will also stop sending doses to Europe, Strive Masiyiwa told reporters at an online briefing.
All the vaccines produced at Aspen will stay in Africa and be distributed to Africa.
This issue has been corrected and corrected in a very positive way.
The US plans to invest $3bn (£2.2bn) in the vaccine supply chain as it continues to work to position the United States as a leading supplier of vaccines for the world, Reuters reports.
White House Covid adviser Jeffrey Zients, a top US health official said during a news conference on Thursday that the funding will focus on manufacturers of the inputs used in Covid-19 vaccine production as well as facilities that fill and package vaccine vials, and will begin to be distributed in the coming weeks.
