Similarly The procedures required for COVID-19 vaccines relies on the support of basic research to manufacturing. Virology Laboratories with genomic and bioinformatics capacities will feed into the already existing Vaccine production facility in Lagos, Nigeria. This facility requires upgrade and a long pipeline, understanding that will promote private-public partnerships.Vaccine research and development is expensive and a pipeline development with sustained and intentional funding is required.
There is a Vaccine production facility in Yaba, Lagos. Funds should be injected deliberately after considering a sustainable plan. Nigeria is over due to producing vaccines and the researchers can collaborate with the facility to produce their lead targets. The Vaccine production centre can also provide capacity building in collaboration with selected universities to produce critical mass that will also work with research platforms.
The scientists are ready but the funding pathway must be encouraging and clearly pipeline-based for impact. Looking beyond COVID-19 is the way forward as the platforms can assess vaccine safety, modifications to rare variants that exists in the country and for other diseases as well. This is how you prepare for war, long preparation . Preparation at the time of war is usually problematic and may not be immediately useful but important to be initiated.