A nurse administers a Covid-19 vaccine at the Palais des Sports vaccination centre in Yaounde, Cameroon on January 6, 2022.
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)The World Health Organization (WHO) has selected the first six African countries to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines, a move aimed at ramping up production and countering vaccine inequity.
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will gain access to technology and training to enable them to design and manufacture their own Covid jabs, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
