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    South Africa’s teachers to be vaccinated from next week

    By SANews17 June 2021
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    The national department of health said it is ready to start vaccinating teachers in their numbers from next week, with Johnson & Johnson vaccines are expected to arrive in the country tomorrow afternoon.

    This is according to the department’s technical advisor, Dr Aquina Thulare, who was briefing parliament’s portfolio committee on health. Thulare said the aircraft carrying the consignment of 300 000 Covid-19 J&J shots will touch down at OR Tambo International airport on Friday, 18 June. The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared this batch for use in the country.

    The roll-out of the single-dose vaccine suffered some setbacks after the FDA halted production following the investigation of manufacturing violations at the J&J factory in Baltimore, US. Because of these problems, two million vaccine doses that had already been produced were declared unusable.

    The School Governing Body databases have been verified and private school databases have been verified

    However, the country’s vaccination roll-out programme is likely to soon gain momentum, as millions of doses are expected to be released from this month. “The School Governing Body databases have been verified and private school databases have been verified,” Thulare said, adding that vaccination centres have also been identified. She told the committee that a special Electronic Vaccination Data System programme will be dedicated to the education sector.

    Exemption

    Meanwhile, single-dose vaccines have already received South African Health Products Regulatory Authority exemption on labelling and genetically modified organism certificates. “The National Control Laboratory is ready to ensure that these vaccines are released on 21 June and will start distributing on 22 June, and will start vaccinating immediately thereafter,” said Thulare.

    She has also confirmed that the vaccine expiry date has been extended. “The FDA did some stability studies on the vaccines they were going to supply to us and the expiry date has been extended by four weeks from the initial date.”

    She said she was confident that the department will be able to vaccinate 300 000 education sector staff out of the 499 000 in 10 working days. Thereafter, the 199 000 remaining staffers will be inoculated with the additional 1.2 million J&J vaccines arriving next week. “We believe that all the educators will be covered.”

    She said that all teachers will be vaccinated regardless of their age, adding that the department is in discussions with the South African Police Service, the defence force and correctional services.



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