The brand new hub will present workforce coaching to all international locations wishing to provide merchandise resembling vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies.
The World Well being Group (WHO) has arrange a hub in South Korea to coach low- and middle-income international locations to provide COVID-19 vaccines primarily based on mRNA expertise. Additionally it is increasing its COVID-19 vaccine challenge to additional 5 nations.
The brand new hub will present workforce coaching to all international locations wishing to provide merchandise resembling vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies, the WHO director basic Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned throughout a press briefing.
Final week, six African international locations – Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia – signed up as the primary on the continent to obtain the expertise to fabricate mRNA vaccines at scale and in keeping with worldwide requirements.
The brand new coaching hub comes after the UN company units up a expertise switch hub in Cape City, South Africa, final yr to provide corporations from poor and middle-income international locations the know-how to provide COVID-19 vaccines primarily based on mRNA expertise.
The WHO additionally mentioned 5 extra international locations – Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Serbia and Vietnam – will obtain help from its mRNA expertise switch hub in South Africa.
Tedros mentioned thus far 20 international locations had expressed curiosity in getting coaching on growing an mRNA vaccine by the South African hub.