Some good news for South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout
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South Africa finally received good news regarding its vaccination rollout, with the first batch of 325,260 Pfizer vaccines arriving in the country overnight.
A similar amount of weekly vaccine doses is expected to arrive through May for a total of 1.3 million doses by the end of the month. Thereafter, the supply is expected to increase notably to more than 636,000 per week in June.
The arrival of the Pfizer vaccines follows the restarting of phase 1 of the country’s rollout, which focuses on the vaccination of healthcare workers as part of the Sisonke implementation study. The rollout resumed on Wednesday (28 April).