center of emerging infectious diseases and research center, doctor bhadelia, let me start with you. one thing we can say has been a failure in the last year and a half is the ability for the world to have a coordinated response first on testing and protective equipment and now on vaccine manufacture and distribution. it seems that this white house has decided to take something of a lead on this front. how does it look? are we anywhere close to getting a future where we see the world vaccinated? we have a strong start, ali, but we have a long way to go. those 80 million represent just 2% of the vaccines needed to vaccinate the rest of the world. but i am hopeful the leadership we ve taken and potentially the commitments of the biden administration has made to continue taking some of the surplus we re likely to see. in the brookings report that says by fall we ll have 500
SA must develop its own vaccines, says President Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country couldn t afford to find itself travelling the world looking for a vaccine. A health care worker at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital prepares a COVID-19 vaccination on the first day of the vaccine rollout to frontline workers on 17 February 2021. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.
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CAPE TOWN - South Africa has to be self-reliant and start the process of building its own factories to manufacture vaccines locally - that s the word from President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Ramaphosa on Thursday responded to the two-day debate on his State of the Nation Address he delivered last week.