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mRNA Vaccine Technology To Be Deployed To Six African countries

WHO project, Six African countries to receive mRNA vaccine technology.

By Wendell Roelf and Alexander Winning

• CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Friday six African countries - Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia - would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines.

• The technology transfer project, launched last year, aims to help low- and middle-income countries manufacture mRNA vaccines at scale and according to international standards.

• mRNA is the advanced technology used by companies such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna for their COVID-19 shots.

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