The cabinet chief described the production of the Sinovac vaccine at a laboratory in northeastern Constantine as a great achievement.

That plant, the only one authorized in Africa, is expected to produce eight million doses a month with the possibility of doubling that amount and exporting the medicine.

The Government’s plans to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic is immunizing 70 percent of its 44 million inhabitants by the end of 2021.

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