Africa CDC Calls For COVID Vaccine Orders From Aspen

Africa’s top public health body has urged all those buying COVID-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, saying the market was key to developing vaccine manufacturing on the continent. <br />The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says it was doing everything it could behind the scenes to prevent a situation where Aspen closes its facility due to a lack of orders. <br />A company executive says this was hailed as a game-changing moment for an under-vaccinated continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts, but Aspen’s COVID-19 vaccine plant now risks shutting down after receiving not a single order.