No cover up, says Prof Glenda Gray as she defends distribution of J&J vaccine

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“I do not think we are covering up for anything. We held press conferences, we went on television with the minister.'

Globally, she said, one in seven Covid-19 cases are health-care workers. To date in SA, more than 40,000 such workers had contracted the disease and just fewer than 6,500 had been hospitalised. Around 650 health-care workers had died.

“And from what I can see, according to the global reports, after July there will be massive access to the vaccines. I think the Department of Health will announce the number of vaccines that are coming into the country in the next couple of months,” she said. “We have got up to half a million doses from J&J to conduct this phase 3B open-label study. When we knew that we could not go ahead with the AstraZeneca rollout, we approached J&J for these vaccines, and these vaccines were all over the world.

Gray said it was important that while the negotiations were happening SA did not ruin any of its diplomatic ties. She encouraged those who have been vaccinated and are showing side effects to report them immediately.

 

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So why have zero citizens received any vaccine in SA yet, Prof? (Only MP's and health care workers, zero ordinary citizens). Whilst other countries are over the 20 million mark!

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