Covid-19 vaccines will be safe when rolled out next year: health experts

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Health experts have encouraged South Africans to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine expected to be rolled out in the country in the second quarter of next year, offering the assurance that rigorous monitoring will ensure its safety.

on Thursday, Prof Helen Rees of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority noted the urgency around the development of a vaccine.

“We've never been under so much pressure to develop a vaccine. Normally we analyse and wait ... What we've done is we've cut out the dead time in between. However, we have not lowered regulatory measures,” she said. “What we want to do as we introduce this vaccine is give people confidence in [it]. The more information we get out there, the better,” Rees said.“The first choice is to give people confidence to do it voluntarily and we have to get high levels of people immunised so we interrupt the transmission of the virus.”

According to Rees, the initial introduction of the vaccine would go to health-care workers and those who have comorbidities.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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