Covid-19: "It is essential that Africa can be autonomous in terms of vaccines"
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Thierry Breton, European Commissioner in charge of the “vaccine task force”, July 10, 2021, in Dakar.
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By: Charlotte Idrac Follow
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Senegal will embark on the production of anti-Covid-19 vaccines. A first financing agreement was signed on Friday July 9 for a manufacturing plant which is to be commissioned in 2022. A project implemented by the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, with the aim of supplying part of the continent. A step towards "
vaccine sovereignty
», While Africa only produces 1% of its vaccine needs.
Since the start of the pandemic, the continent has received doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, made in India, as part of the Covax device.
But it is not approved by the EU.
How is Europe positioned in this “vaccine diplomacy” on the continent?
Thierry Breton is European Commissioner in charge of the "vaccine task force", he has just completed a trip to Dakar.
He is the guest of Charlotte Idrac.
Senegal
Vaccines
Coronavirus
European Union