The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday the launch of a Covid-19 vaccine production programme in Africa. Six countries (South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia) will be equipped with production lines to manufacture doses of mRNA vaccines, in an initiative aimed at reducing the continent’s reliance on vaccine imports and boosting low immunisation rates.
FRANCE 24 spoke to Professor Yap Boum, representative of Epicentre, the research arm of Doctors Without Borders, about the evolution of the pandemic on the continent.
