Aspen has signed a monumental deal with Johnson & Johnson that will see the South African pharmaceutical giant manufacture and sell its own branded Covid-19 vaccine in Africa.
The new agreement makes Aspen Pharmacare the first African company to market a Covid vaccine on the continent. But it stops short of allowing Aspen to make the ingredients in the vaccine.
Merck and Pfizer now have generic licensing deals for their new antiviral Covid-19 pills. We look at the deals and whether generics might be made in Africa.