Vaccine manufacturing no quick fix Tuesday May 04 2021 By TONY WATIMA Last week, Bill Gates hit global headlines after an interview with Sky News in which he responded with an emphatic ‘No’ to a question on whether lifting intellectual property protection on Covid-19 vaccines and sharing vaccine manufacture formulas with developing countries will be helpful in the fight against this pandemic. His answer attracted criticism and furore, but this isn’t the first time he has made such an outrageous statement. Early last year, he warned that the Covid-19 could hit Africa worse than China and that 10 million may die worldwide.