In world first, S Africa's Afrigen makes mRNA COVID vaccine using Moderna data
In world first, S Africa's Afrigen makes mRNA COVID vaccine using Moderna data
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In world first, S Africa's Afrigen makes mRNA COVID vaccine using Moderna data
Company hoping for clinical trials in November
It is the first mRNA vaccine designed, developed and produced at lab scale on the African continent.
Only 7.5% of the population in Africa has been fully vaccinated so far. Vaccines are not arriving because some rich countries are hoarding them. In South Africa, scientists now want to take the development of jabs into their own hands.
Hands, so they're replicating moderna's mrna vaccine. despite commitment to global season access, moderna has not given its permission. legally afrigen can take this up to clinical trials, but petro terblanche says to get shots into people's arms, they would need a license agreement with moderna. but some experts globally said it couldn't be done. africa can't produce an mrna vaccine? >> i think we have a prize for the rest of the world, we can, and we will. >> reporter: on the covid battlefront, perhaps it takes rebels in lab coats to even the field. debora patta, cbs news, johannesburg, sout...