Moderna’s pause on Kenya project highlights difficulties in creating a competitive vaccine sector on the continent
BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin breaks ground on a new messenger RNA facility in Kigali, Rwanda, with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and Rwandan President Paul Kagame in June 2022.In March 2022, when the pandemic was still raging, the messenger RNA company Moderna announced it would build a $500 million plant in Kenya to manufacture half a billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine annually. “,” Kenyan President William Ruto said at the time.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the harsh inequities in vaccine access like never before. Rich countries purchased far more doses than they needed, whereas India, home of the largest producers of shots meant for developing countries,in March 2021 to deal with its own COVID-19 surge.
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