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MONEYWEB app instead? Billionaire’s year at home gives impetus to Africa vaccine plan It’s given him the time to plot a way to help Africa produce its own vaccines. By Janice Kew and Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg 21 May 2021  14:38  Patrick Soon-Shiong, chief executive officer of NantKwest Inc. Image: Bloomberg US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has spent the last year at home, but he’s not been idle. It’s given him the time to plot a way to help Africa produce its own vaccines. ImmuntyBio Inc., in which he is a part owner, has signed a deal with The BioVac Institute, a state-backed South African vaccine company, to manufacture coronavirus doses from scratch in the country. He’s also giving an initial R3 billion ($214 million) to the nation of his birth to help pass on technology for Covid-19 shots and other therapies that can be exported around the continent.

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