Africa should boost vaccine-making capacity to deal with future disease outbreaks
Local governments will be better able to support mass vaccination efforts in future without having to rely on foreign suppliers
22 March 2021 - 14:01
The Covid-19 pandemic has often been described as a “once-in-a-century” occurrence, but the reality in the light of the cumulative record is that the likelihood of another pandemic occurring in our lifetime is high.
Driven by factors such as climate change, deforestation and the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the risk of novel disease outbreaks has been steadily increasing in recent years...
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