Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, who attended the
launch of the production process at a factory in the eastern city of
Constantine, called it a "big achievement".
Production could be doubled in the North African nation if needed,
officials said.
"Algeria... aims to achieve other projects of this
kind," Benabderrahmane said, praising the country's pharmaceutical
industry.
Lotfi Djamel Benbahmed, Algeria's minister for the
pharmaceutical industry, has said the country plans to export the vaccines.
He said Saidal, the firm making the jabs, was so far the
only African company to be licenced to produce the jab.
Following a sharp spike in Covid-19 cases in past months,
Algeria has seen a drop in recent weeks.
Algeria, the biggest African nation by size, announced this
month a campaign to vaccinate some 70 percent of its 44 million population by
the end of the year.
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