The affirmation from Africa’s prime public well being company comes inside days of Modena and J&J saying offers in Africa.
Africa’s prime public well being company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to convey provides of the pharmaceutical agency’s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 drugs to the continent.
“The memorandum of understanding is with the authorized workplace on the AU [African Union]”, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) instructed a web-based media briefing on Thursday.
The company is a unit of the African Union.
The announcement comes inside days of Moderna signing a deal with Kenya to construct its first mRNA facility and an announcement by South African drugmaker Aspen to promote, bundle and distribute Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.
In October, Senegal and Rwanda signed an settlement with BioNTech for the development of its first start-to-finish factories to make mRNA vaccines in Africa.
Nkengasong stated African international locations must be utilizing a mixture of public well being measures, vaccines, testing and different remedies specifically the Pfizer one of their efforts to beat the COVID-19 pandemic this 12 months.
“These molecules have a really distinctive position to play in a marketing campaign to combat in opposition to this horrible pandemic,” he stated.
Nkengasong expressed concern about international locations the place vaccination charges have been nonetheless very low, which embody most African international locations, saying individuals shouldn't be complacent because the virus nonetheless posed a grave danger.
“In fact, the struggle occurring in Ukraine has taken a whole lot of consideration away from COVID, which is unlucky as a result of COVID has now killed shut to 6 million individuals,” he stated.
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