According to World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Africa is working with the European Union and other partners to assist build regional vaccine manufacturing centres in South Africa, Senegal, and Rwanda, with Nigeria being considered.
On Monday during a virtual meeting, Okonjo-Iweala said: “We have now seen that over-centralization of vaccine production capacity is incompatible with equitable access in a crisis situation,”
“Regional production hubs, in tandem with open supply chains, offer a more promising path to preparedness for future health crisis.”