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WHO setting up hub to make COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. [Reuters]

The WHO is setting up a hub in South Africa to give companies from poor and middle-income countries the know-how and licenses to produce COVID-19 vaccines, in what President Cyril Ramaphosa called a historic step to spread lifesaving technology.

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