SA first among African countries to get mRNA vaccine technology in WHO project

Tech transfer aims to help low-and middle-income countries manufacture mRNA vaccines at scale

20 February 2022 - 00:00 By Reuters

The World Health Organisation said on Friday that SA, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines...

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