{"id":117825,"date":"2021-04-08T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117825"},"modified":"2021-04-08T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:13:09","slug":"algeria-to-start-local-production-of-russias-sputnik-v-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117825","title":{"rendered":"Algeria to start local production of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Algeria-to-start-local-production-of-Russia-s-Sputnik-V-vaccines-1226776?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/173\/17323724.295.jpg\" alt=\"Algeria has already has received 50,000 doses of Sputnik V from Russia\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Algeria has already received 50,000 doses of Sputnik V from Russia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALGIERS, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algeria will start producing Russia\u2019s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in September in partnership with Moscow, and part of the production will be intended for African countries, the pharmaceutical industry minister said.<br><br>The North African country, which already has received 50,000 doses of Sputnik V, said in February it was in talks with Russia to produce the vaccine.<br><br>\u201cWe must meet the vaccine challenge. We will be ready to produce an Algerian vaccine in September,\u201d Lotfi Benbahmed, the minister, said on state radio.<br><br>The vaccine will be produced in partnership with state pharmaceutical products firm Saidal in the eastern city of Constantine, Benbahmed said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saidal will get help from a \u201cleading Indian laboratory specialised in the manufacture of vaccines\u201d, Benbahmed added, without naming the laboratory.<br><br>\u201cThree committees are working on the transfer of the technology provided by the Russian side,\u201d Benbahmed said. \u201cAlgeria will have its share and responsibility in the vaccination of the African populations.\u201d &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria has already received 50,000 doses of Sputnik V from Russia ALGIERS, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algeria will start producing Russia\u2019s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in September in partnership with Moscow, and part of the production will be intended for African countries, the pharmaceutical industry minister said. The North African country, which already has received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}