Ramaphosa to multilateral agencies: Buy Covid vaccines from African providers | News24

International agencies and charitable foundations providing Covid-19 vaccines for Africa should order African-made vaccines, President Cyril Ramaphosa told a global Covid-19 summit on Thursday.

Ramaphosa's comments came after South African pharmaceutical company Aspen said it could slash its capacity to produce a Covid vaccine manufactured with drug substance from Johnson & Johnson after getting no orders.

Ramaphosa told the summit co-hosted by the United States that African manufacturers must be supported to ensure developing capabilities on the continent were retained. Separately on Thursday, a senior World Health Organisation official told a briefing that lessons would be learnt from Aspen's difficulties.

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