Cloete said: “We can do a maximum of 70,000 vaccines next week, unless J&J starts coming back into the system.”
In the first week there were 18 sites and by Friday there will be 114. The plan is for 186, but the “supply problem will stymie this”, according to Cloete. “The supply constraints are not regarding the capacity at our sites to administer vaccines. We cannot do the intended 120,000 next week and that big supply constraint is a direct result of the non-delivery and non-release of the J&J doses.”
SA had ordered just over 30 million doses of the J&J vaccine, which only requires one jab, while Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, the country’s biggest drugmaker, has a contract to fill and package the vaccine at a local plant.
01 June 2021 - 20:33 By TimesLIVE More than a million people have had the Covid-19 jab in SA. Image: BreadCrumbs Linguistics
More than a million people have now been vaccinated against Covid-19 in SA.
The health ministry said on Tuesday that, as of the end of May, there had been 1,045,104 individuals who had either received the single-dose J&J vaccine or the first of the double-dose Pfizer vaccine.
Of these, 479,768 had been vaccinated under the Sisonke protocol and 565,336 under phase 2 of the rollout programme.
“It is my pleasure to announce that we have breached the million mark and have vaccinated 1,045,104 individuals. I wish to thank all involved in the vaccination campaign, from the director-general of health to each and every vaccinator continuing to battle it out for the nation on the front line. We will continue to ramp up daily vaccinations, working together with the private sector towards attaining the targets we have committed to,” said h
The health ministry said on Friday that there were 4,576 new Covid-19 cases recorded in the past 24 hours, on the back of 4,424 infections the day before.
The health ministry said on Friday that there were 4,576 new Covid-19 cases recorded in the past 24 hours, on the back of 4,424 infections the day before.