WHO Praises Morocco’s Commitment to Local Vaccine Production for Africa

Speaking during a webinar organized in Kigali on the partnership for vaccine manufacturing in Africa, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the WHO, recognized the efforts of African countries such as Morocco which "have signed agreements or memoranda of understanding for the manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines".

For him, local vaccine production is an essential element for the achievement of universal health coverage objectives.

"Even before the pandemic, we knew that local vaccine production was an essential element of the path to universal health coverage," he said, adding that "beyond Covid, there will always be diseases and epidemics; that’s why local vaccine production is important."

In this regard, he commended the African countries that have taken initiatives to develop a vaccine manufacturing industry. These include "Morocco, Egypt, Rwanda and Senegal, all of which have signed agreements or memoranda of understanding for the manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines in their countries".