South Africa is still in its infancy when it comes to being able to develop and manufacture vaccines, despite leading the charge on the continent. The government's ambitions to see large-scale local production of vaccines relies heavily on a proposed agreement among developers to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and medicines in poor countries.
In his weekly statement this Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa plans to rapidly scale up local production of its Covid-19 vaccines if the proposal supported by South Africa, India and the US is accepted at the World Trade Organisation.According to Jeff Dorfman, associate professor of the Division of Medical Virology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa could not have been ready to produce vaccines in meaningful quantities in the time it has had.
But as Ndlovu Care Group CEO Dr Hugo Tempelman points out, this activity will only deal with the packaging of the product. He suggests venturing into full scale production may be seen as too risky an investment in South Africa. Bragg is part of a research group that has a patented yeast-based expression system. In March 2020 the team had already designed the genes for expression of the Covid-19 virus in their expressions system.“The design of the genes for SARS-CoV-2 was based on the work we did with the avian coronavirus. We attempted to publish this work in March 2020, but one of the reviewers requested that we first express the genes before we could publish.
“What is hampering development now is the tendering system. You need the infrastructure and the knowledge to develop vaccines. Knowledge is there, but there is no infrastructure. If you want to develop a vaccine that you can only secure a two-year contract from the Department of Health for a certain line of production, then the risk of not being able to continue afterwards is too high.
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