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South African-American biotech businessman Patrick Soon-Shiong opened a new vaccine plant in Cape Town on Wednesday, intended to help his local NantSA company make Covid-19 shots and address the continent’s deadly dearth of manufacturing capacity, Reuters reports.
it will be the first in Africa to produce Covid-19 vaccines from start to finish, according to Agence France-Presse.
This state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing campus that we are officially launching today is part of a far broader initiative to propel Africa into a new era of health science.
Today we are marking the establishment of a company that aims to develop next-generation vaccines that will reach patients across the continent.
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Source: The Guardian