Kenya to Start Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccines Next Year
Kenya is set to start manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines next year in a move aimed at easing supply hitches.
The vaccines will be produced locally in collaboration with unnamed pharmaceutical companies, according to Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe.
Kagwe said the government is in the process of setting up a filling plant for the COVID-19 vaccines while a full-fledged manufacturing plant will be built by 2024.
A fill and finish facility allows third parties to put the vaccine from the main manufacturers into vials or syringes, sealing them and packaging them up for distribution.
“To improve our vaccine supply security, the government has embarked on the local manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines starting with the establishment of a fill-and finish facility through strategic partnerships and technological transfer,” Kagwe said in the National COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan, 2021.
“We aim to start local production during the first quarter of 2022 and have a fully-fledged human vaccine manufacturing capability by 2024.”
He pointed out that local production will help secure sufficient vaccines to boost mass vaccination programs.
Kenya targets to inoculate at least 10 million adults by December this year and 26 million by end of June 2022.
The country has so far received about three million doses of the Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca vaccines.
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The elite thugs have started…
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The elite thugs have started another “WHITE ELEPHANT” to con bongoinzi,hungry billionaire Kenyans after swallowing shs 257b in COVIDGATE scandal.I know most WANJINGA will abuse me but I won’t be silenced by senseless people who think majangili Uhuru,Gidion na Raila plus their families have the right to “EAT” my money.RISASI TU.
Yes we can! However, the…
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Yes we can!
However, the KEMSA Billionaires shouldn't be allowed near the plant.
I hope no cartels and…
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I hope no cartels and corrupt thieves and plunderers will be involved in this endeavor. Unless Matiangi oversees the project this will be another white elephant cash cow.
South Africa was and…
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South Africa was and probably is still involved in this arrangement of manufacturing corvid vaccines. But there is a catch, the vaccines are not meant for the South African people but for Europeans citizens. Will Kenya be different?
Negroes tried. better …
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Negroes tried.
better late than never. Hope negroes know how to manufacture another one after next devastating pandemic.
Hopefully, they're not…
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Hopefully, they're not scheming up a vacc mandate.
The COVID-19 is just a…
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The COVID-19 is just a temporary virus. It will disappear. And while the COVID millionaires are at it again, they may succeed in getting their quick cash.
Why so much in a hurry to build something of this magnitude while the rest of the people are dying of hunger? Use the money to get water to every home and enhance food security. Most of insurgent insecurity in the country is caused by mostly the need for the people to feed their children.
It’s another white elephant as some of you have observed.
Another cash cow in the…
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Another cash cow in the making.
Preparing and fattening the cow for RUTO, RAILA, UHURU, KAGWE ETC To milk and then kill it.
WAKENYA TUTAAMKA LINI?
JAMENI, TUTABEBWA WAANA MPAKE LINI?
WE EITHER DO SOMETHING OR JUST SHUT UP AND STOP COMPLAINING.
adding to another WHITE…
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adding to another WHITE ELEPHANT" KPLC GETS A LOAN FROM NCBA BANK- kenyatta and former central bank governor own this bank "majority of the shares " after merger . KPLC WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PAY THE LOAN = NCBA WILL GO BROKE when will it end ? continuous slavery by the rotten folk when will it end ? when will wanjiku be free . (September 27, 2019, 4:58 PM. The Central Bank of Kenya has
adding to another WHITE…
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adding to another WHITE ELEPHANT" KPLC GETS A LOAN FROM NCBA BANK- kenyatta and former central bank governor own this bank "majority of the shares " after merger . KPLC WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PAY THE LOAN = NCBA WILL GO BROKE when will it end ? continuous slavery by the rotten folk when will it end ? when will wanjiku be free . (September 27, 2019, 4:58 PM. The Central Bank of Kenya has
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