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Senegal to build COVID-19 vaccine plant in bid to expand African access

Senegal to build COVID-19 vaccine plant in bid to expand African access

CONSTRUCTION of a new plant in Senegal to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines is expected to begin later this year, and the facility should produce 25 million doses per month by the end of 2022, the financiers of the project have announced. The Institut Pasteur in Senegal's capital Dakar, which will run the plant, and various European development partners said the facility would help Africa reduce its dependence on vaccine imports, which currently account for 99% of its needs. That reliance on outside manufacturing has proved costly during the pandemic. Only a little more than 1% of the continent's population has been…
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