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South Africa: Speaking Notes by the Minister of Health Dr. Jo Phaahla During the Covid-19 Vaccination Update Media Briefing
Govt of SA, 10 March 2022
Good morning to our facilitator Mr Foster Mohale Morning Deputy Minister Dr Dhlomo,DG Dr Sandile ButheleziDDG Dr Nicholas Crisp and other Department of Health Managers, Drs Waasila… Read more »
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South Africa: Changes to Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Plan on the Cards
Daily Maverick, 9 March 2022
Just under a third of South Africa's remaining Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer are set to expire by July. After that, any unused doses will have to be destroyed. Until then the… Read more »
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South Africa: SA Records 1,995 New Covid-19 Cases
SAnews.gov.za, 3 March 2022
South Africa has recorded 1 995 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 677 686. Read more »
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South Africa: Biovac and Partners Collaborate to Support South Africa's Vaccine Manufacturing
State Department, 3 March 2022
Consortium of nine development partners to support Biovac’s expansion of its existing vaccine manufacturing plant capacity, and enable the production of… Read more »
Changes to South African Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Planned
Just under a third of South Africa's remaining Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer are set to expire by July 2022. After that, any unused doses will have to be destroyed. Until then the health department is trying to increase uptake of the doses and donate spare shots, write Mia Malan and Laura Grant for Daily Maverick.
South Africa has received all the 30 million Pfizer Covid jabs it has procured from the drug manufacturer and the last batch that was delivered - a consignment of 4,831,560 shots that arrived between October and December 2021 - expires at the end of July, health department data shows.
After that date, Pfizer jabs not used or redistributed to other countries will have to be destroyed and more doses are unlikely to be procured directly from the company.
As of March 10, 2022, a total of 3,688,423 Covid-19 cases has been confirmed in the country of which 99,656 and 3,569,538 resulted in recovery. Vaccinations administered to date total 20,558,264.
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The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has fought hard for vaccine equity in the battle against Covid-19. On February 11, 2022 a visit to Read more »
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The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has ruled for a second time that an employee can be suspended for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19, T Read more »
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (file photo).
