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SAfrica’s Aspen seeks licence for J&J COVID shot as EU shipments halted

SAfrica’s Aspen seeks licence for J&J COVID shot as EU shipments halted

PROMIT MUKHERJEE and MAGGIE FICK ASPEN Pharmacare is in talks to make Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus shot under licence in South Africa, at what would be the continent's first major independent distribution base for a global vaccine against COVID-19, the company has announced. News of the talks coincided with the suspension of heavily criticised shipments to Europe from Africa of the same shot, which is already being made under contract and packaged by Aspen but distributed by J&J. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last month he was "stunned" by that arrangement, since Europe has very high inoculation rates while…
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