Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines are going to be limited to the urban centres
3 May 2021 1:20 PM
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Head of the Ministerial Advisory Council on vaccines Professor Barry Schoub says the vaccines need to stored at -70 degrees.
The first batch of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines arrived in South Africa on Sunday night.
More than 325,000 doses and will expand the vaccine rollout programme. They have been stored at a central warehouse and samples will be sent to the national laboratory for quality assurance.
Mandy Wieber speaks to the head of the Ministerial Advisory Council on vaccines Professor Barry Schoub.
This is very good news indeed, this marks the fact that we really good supply of vaccines because also the Johnson & Johnson s 1.1-million is also due to come very soon.
Vaccination of healthcare workers restarts
On Wednesday, 28 April, the vaccination of South Africa’s healthcare workers resumed after the Department of Health approved the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine once again. The use was paused for health authorities to investigate a possible link between the jab and an extremely rare type of blood clot. The roll-out was paused for 15 days, during which no healthcare workers were vaccinated. By Friday, 20 April another 15,600 healthcare workers had been vaccinated.
There have already been “tremendous benefits” of this vaccine for the healthcare workers who have received it, said Professor Barry Schoub. He was speaking alongside Professor Kolea Mlisana, another lead Covid-19 adviser to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, during a
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One of SA's top thrombosis experts has slammed the decision to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine rollout in South Africa - branding the move 'irritating'.
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