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COVID-19: Nigeria, five other African countries get WHO approval for vaccine production.


In a bid to achieve vaccine equity, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has selected the first six African countries that will receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines on the continent.

The countries are Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia.

This was announced by the WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, at the European Union-African Union summit in Brussels on Friday. He noted that the countries all applied and have been selected as the first technology recipients of the mRNA vaccine hub.

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