Scientists there say it could help increase very low vaccination rates across Africa.
Scientists in South Africa have made a copy of the Moderna Covid vaccine, a move which they say could help boost vaccination rates across Africa.The company behind the new vaccine - Afrigen Biologics - says it hopes to start clinical trials in November.
"We have used the sequence, which is the same sequence as the Moderna vaccine 1273," he told the BBC. This type of vaccine teaches cells how to make a protein that will trigger an immune response inside our bodies, rather than putting a weakened or inactivated germ into the body."It puts the power in our hands to be able to produce our own vaccines for the future, to be ready for further pandemics, to produce clinical trial material on African soil and then to look at other diseases of relevance in Africa.", compared to 60% in North America, 63% in Europe and 61% across Asia.
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