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Pfizer’s Cape Town Deal to Produce 100 Million Vaccine Doses for Africa

  • Cape Town facility to make more than 100 million doses a year
  • Africa is least-vaccinated continent, underscoring inequity

Photographer: Francisco Seco/AP Photo

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Pfizer Inc. said it reached an agreement to start production of its Covid-19 vaccine at a facility in Cape Town in an effort to deliver more than 100 million doses annually to African nations.