{"id":2589,"date":"2022-03-29T19:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2022-04-12T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T10:53:24","slug":"botswana-to-manufacture-corbevax-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2589\/botswana-to-manufacture-corbevax-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana to manufacture Corbevax Covid vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Botswana is the latest country to approve the use of the Corbevax coronavirus vaccine – and also plans to produce it locally by 2026.<\/p>\n

This is according to South African-born biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong,\u00a0who made the announcement on a visit to Botswana on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His NantWorks company has partnered with the Botswana government to set up a vaccine-manufacturing plant – and he was in the southern African country to mark the start of the project.<\/p>\n

During his trip, Dr Soon-Shiong said he had organised for Botswana<\/a> to immediately get access to 100 million doses of the Corbevax vaccine currently in production elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He said the protein-based vaccine had been declared safe, worked against every variant and 10 million doses had already been administered, mainly in India and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

The patent-free vaccine, developed by US researchers, is currently being produced in India and there is no requirement for Corbevax to be stored at very low temperatures.<\/p>\n

Currently, only 1% of the vaccines used in Africa are produced on the continent – and the latest figures show that only 15% of Africans are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Botswana is the latest country to approve the use of the Corbevax coronavirus vaccine – and also plans to produce it locally by 2026. This is according to South African-born biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong,\u00a0who made the announcement on a visit to Botswana on Monday. His NantWorks company has partnered with the Botswana government to set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southern-africa","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}