During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, many committees and organisations were working around the clock to prepare the country for the roll-out of vaccines. Vaccine safety prof Hannelie Meyer, a pharmacist-turned-academic and later vaccine advocate, served on several of these committees. El.
It was the first death in SA that has been causally linked to a Covid-19 vaccine, of which more than 38 million doses have been administered in the country.
The regulator on Thursday announced that a patient had died after developing Guillain-Barré Syndrome post vaccination with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.