South Africa’s medicine regulator Sahpra amended the Johnson & Johnson implementation study’s guidelines to include government officials with a health qualification, the President, and his deputy
There are four different types of approval a vaccine (and medicine in general) can get from our medicine regulator
Our first four batches of Johnson & Johnson vaccines and the 9-million we’ll be getting later are entering the country under different types of registration - that’s why there are different rules for their use
On Wednesday 17 February, around 2pm, South Africa’s first four health workers received their Covid jabs on live television. They each received one of the 80 000 Johnson & Johnson shots that arrived in South Africa on Tuesday.
âMy dad died from Covid-19 while waiting for ivermectin application approvalâ
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A man from Plettenberg Bay died of Covid-19 while his family waited on the hope that his application for the use of ivermectin would be approved.
Tanya Johnson lost her father, Herman van der Westhuizen, 62, after a month-long battle with the virus. He passed away on 31 January, two weeks after his application for the use of ivermectin was sent to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra).
His application has still not been approved despite the health regulator saying in a press release in January: âSahpra undertakes to respond to all applications for individual, named patient access within 24 hoursâ.
First published by Bhekisisa.
On Wednesday 17 February at around 2pm, South Africa’s first four health workers received their Covid jabs on live television. They each received one of the 80,000 Johnson & Johnson shots that arrived in South Africa on Tuesday.
These jabs are reserved for health workers who are participating in the national health department and South African Medical Research Council’s Covid vaccine roll-out implementation study.
But why then could President Cyril Ramaphosa, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and other public figures receive jabs too?
And why did the Johnson & Johnson vaccines not go for tests at the National Control Laboratory in Bloemfontein like the AstraZeneca jabs that arrived earlier this month did?