Nigeria and five other African countries have been chosen to begin production of COVID-19 vaccine, with the continent having had limited access to jabs.
The World Health Organisation announced this on Friday.
The other countries are: Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia.
According to the WHO, they were selected as the first recipients of technology from the organisation’s global mRNA vaccine hub, in a push to ensure the African continent can make its own jabs to fight COVID and other diseases.
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