WHO announces 2nd hub for training countries to make COVID vaccines
2022-02-25 10:11:49 source：CGTN
February 24, 2022
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that the organization has set up a hub in South Korea to train low- and middle-income countries to produce their own vaccines and therapies, expanding its COVID-19 vaccine project to a further five nations.
Tedros said the new hub will share mRNA technology being developed by the WHO and partners in South Africa, where scientists are working to recreate the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna Inc. That effort is taking place without Moderna's help.
"Vaccines have helped to change the course of the COVID-19 pandemic but this scientific triumph has been undermined by vast inequities in access to these life-saving tools," Tedros said.
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