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World Health Organization chief says drug companies should share vaccine-making capacity
The World Health Organization director-general has called on pharmaceutical companies to share manufacturing facilities to help ramp up the production of COVID-19 vaccines.
Key points:
- The WHO has called on drug companies to follow the example of French drug maker Sanfoi
- The company is making its manufacturing infrastructure available to support production of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
- Dr Tedros also repeated calls for a more equitable distribution of vaccines globally
Speaking at an online news briefing from Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said almost 130 countries, with a combined population of 2.5 billion people, were yet to administer a single dose of vaccine.
Dr Tedros repeated his plea for rich nations to share doses with poorer…
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