Moderna looks beyond Covid vaccines for Kenya factory
BusinessDailyAfrica.com
by Brian Ngugi
May 22, 2022
Excerpt:
The government now says Moderna’s Sh57.5 billion vaccine plant will have a crucial role to play in the fight against other diseases beyond the Covid 19 pandemic amid global glut of coronavirus vaccines.
The comments come amid a reported global vaccine oversupply that has crept up across a world once desperate for immunisation against the coronavirus, raising fears of the viability of Covid-19 plants in the pipeline.
But health Cabinet secretary Mutahi Kagwe said vaccine plants in the Kenya pipeline including the Moderna’s would also produce other vaccines. Therefore, the Covid-19 vaccines glut would not affect the construction plans.
“They will make vaccines..not just Covid ones,” Mr Kagwe told the Business Daily.
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