Moderna to build first African vaccine facility in Kenya

More than a year after the world's first Covid-19 shot was administered and two years into the pandemic itself, just 12.7 percent of Africans have been fully immunised. PHOTO | AFP

What you need to know:

  • Moderna said it hopes to use the facility to supply doses of its Covid-19 jab to African nations as early as next year, in a bid to boost vaccine coverage on the world's least immunised continent