The government of Ghana is set to invest some US$25 million as seed money towards the establishment of a National Vaccine Institute in a bid to produce COVID-19 vaccine locally.
President Akufo-Addo announced this in his 26th address to the nation on measures being implemented to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, on Sunday, July 25.
According to him, “Government has committed to inject seed funding of some twenty-five million United States dollars (US$25 million) this year, into this enterprise”
The institute when established will have six mandates:
1. establishing local vaccine manufacturing plants;
2. deepening Research & Development (R&D) for vaccines in Ghana;
3. upgrading and strengthening the FDA;
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