{"id":39196,"date":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=dee77c10ad06fb0b5bff0b4cf90d7d77"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"covid-19-us-based-african-billionaire-opens-first-full-vaccine-plant-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/covid-19-us-based-african-billionaire-opens-first-full-vaccine-plant-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: US-based African billionaire opens first full vaccine plant in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
CAPE TOWN, South Africa is hosting the first COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing plant on the continent where jabs will be produced from start to finish.<\/P>
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The name of the company to do that is Nants-SA facility located in Cape Town.<\/P>
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The plant is \u201can initiative by the US-based, South African-born biotech billionaire Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong.\u201d<\/P>
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It aims to start producing the vaccines within a year and to make a billion doses annually by 2025.<\/P>
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South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa joined the billionaire at the launch of the facility. Ramphosa stressed that the facility is a gamechanger relative to Africa\u2019s vaccine sufficiency.<\/P>
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South Africa has other vaccine manufacturing companies but they are largely assembly points unlike the Nants-SA facility.<\/P>
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Source: Nam News Network<\/P>
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PRETORIA, A South African zoo is reporting that lions and pumas may have contracted COVID-19 from their handlers.<\/P>
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This is according to a study by researchers at the University of Pretoria who are warning of risk of new variants if the virus \u201cestablishes itself in other animal reservoirs\u201d and is retransmitted to humans.<\/P>
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The study was done after the animals fell ill with symptoms that were similar to coronavirus in human beings \u2013 including breathing difficulties, runny noses and a dry cough.<\/P>
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Covid tests on the animals turned out positive, the research noted, with data suggesting that they contracted the virus from staff handling them.<\/P>
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South Africa is currently Africa\u2019s most impacted relative to COVID-19 caseload.<\/P>
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Source: Nam News Network<\/P>
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