“It is not a credits. The Chinese company “Sinovac” gave its name to the Saidal group to use it. Algeria is now part of the club of the producing countries of the anti-COVVID vaccine. This is a first, knowing that this vaccine has only one year of existence, ”announces the Algerian Minister of the pharmaceutical industry Abderrahmane Lotfi Djamel Benbahmed, quoted by the official Algerian press agency.
Indeed, Algeria plans to project itself into the export to Africa of the anti-Cavid vaccine “Coronavac”, whose first lots will go out this Wednesday from the Constantine production unit.
He announced the official visit in Algeria of a delegation from the Specialized Health Agency of the African Union (the CDC Africa), scheduled for October 13 to 18, specifying that “this African agency has considerable means to buy the Algerian vaccine”.
And to add: “We have the possibilities of being an African platform of” Fill and Finish “with a production capacity of 200 million doses per year”, he added, while mentioning that “the Saidal group is the only African producer to have obtained the production license from Coronavac”.
