About 100 000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine are at risk of being destroyed by the end of this month due to slow uptake by citizens.
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The national health department is changing Covid-19 vaccination rules to try to increase uptake, as inoculations have slowed and the country has ample vaccine stocks.
Omicron’s ability to evade vaccine and infection-induced immunity is “robust but not complete”, South African researchers said.
South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of Covid-19 vaccines because it now has too much stock.
Shabir Madhi has been a key player in shaping the country’s response. Here he provides an assessment of plans to vaccinate adolescents, and next steps.
Moderna said it would spend as much as $500-million to build a factory in Africa that could produce half a billion messenger RNA vaccine doses a year.
The Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech was granted a full approval by US regulators, a milestone expected to help bolster the immunisation drive.
The European Commission said on Thursday it had reached a temporary agreement with South Africa to use a plant to bottle Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines, after criticism of the arrangement.
Health department director-general Dr Nicholas Crisp has expressed concern that the demand for Covid-19 vaccines has decreased.
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine is working well in South Africa, offering protection against severe disease and death, the head of a trial in the country said on Friday.