South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa and a US billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong have inaugurated a new vaccine manufacturing facility in Cape Town that hopes to produce around one billion COVID-19 doses annually by 2025.
The plant is South Africa’s third vaccine manufacturing facility but will be the first in Africa to fully produce COVID-19 vaccines instead of manufacturing them from semi-finished batches.
South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections on the continent.
The country has so far reported over 3.56 million cases and more than 93,571 fatalities.
