Botswana is the latest country to approve the use of the Corbevax coronavirus vaccine - and also plans to produce it locally by 2026.
The South African-born biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong made the announcement on a visit to Botswana on Monday.
Dr Soon-Shiong says he had organised for Botswana to immediately get access to 100 million doses of the Corbevax vaccine currently in production elsewhere.
He says the protein-based vaccine had been declared safe, worked against every variant and 10 million doses had already been administered, mainly in India and Bangladesh.