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#Dirco Minister, Naledi Pandor is currently briefing the media on international relations cooperation highlights in 2020 as well as upcoming events in 2021.

#Dirco | Pandor: The AU has also developed a vaccine strategy for the continent, and established a COVID-19 African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT), in support of the Africa Vaccine Strategy tasked to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are available for Africans.

#Dirco | Pandor says that there are fears that the richer countries may hoard vaccine stocks and use intellectual property rights to block access of vaccines to developing countries.

#Dirco | Pandor says vaccine nationalism is a very real threat and government will closely monitor this

#Dirco | Pandor says the department has no update regarding #ShepherdBushiri.