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The collaboration will see viral vectored vaccines being produced in South Africa.

(Getty Images) The University of the Witwatersrands Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit will assist with building specialist skills capacity within Biovac to generate engineered viruses that may be used as Covid-19 and other vaccines. According to Biovac, South Africa desperately needs to build capability to manufacture viral vaccines from scratch rather than importing the active pharmaceutical ingredients. Viral vector-based vaccines are different from most conventional va...