Market key to ensuring local COVID-19 vaccine production in Africa: Africa CDC official

ADDIS ABABA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Creating efficient market linkage is crucial to boosting the local production capacity of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa, a senior Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) official has said.

Ahmed Ogwell, deputy director of the Africa CDC, while addressing a press briefing on Thursday, said that African COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers should be given priority among purchasing African countries and institutions so as to promote the local production of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa.