Countries on the continent are not waiting to be saved, they are paving the way with community-led, astute, innovative and independent immunisation programmes
French economic presence in South Africa is solid, with nearly 500 companies representing more than 65 000 direct jobs
Avat has secured a donation of several hundred million doses of Covid-19 drugs from the United States, 25-million of which will begin to be rolled out by the end of this week
For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs
The first batch of locally manufactured jabs could be expected in the next nine to 12 months
In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same?
COMMENT: The AU has laid out a clear path for the continent to produce its own vaccines
Just days after Minister Zweli Mkhize came under fire for the government’s apparent slow take on securing the vaccine, he announced to Parliament that the first batch of dosages would be arriving this month
National distribution of two vaccines against pneumonia and diarrhoea will be possible soon.