AFRICA ( Commonwealth Union) _ The UN’s global health director applauded the official opening of Africa’s first mRNA vaccine center on Thursday and called it as a historic step in enabling underdeveloped nations to get life-saving vaccinations.
The facility was built in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2021 as a result of the success of the ground-breaking anti-Covid vaccinations developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated during a press conference to mark the opening that this precious project will bring a paradigm shift in addressing the serious problem we faced, the equity problem, during the pandemic, so that it’s not repeated again. According to South Africa’s minister of research and innovation, Blade Nzimande, at the time, South Africa and the rest of the developing world were at the back of the line when it came to access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines.
