Giving progress on the phase 1 health-care worker vaccination and vaccine supply, chair of B4SA’s health working group Stavros Nicolaou welcomed the launch of the phase 2 registration on the EVDS system.
“We expect the vaccination programme to ramp up significantly in the coming weeks as we move out of the Sisonke implementation study which, like all studies, takes longer to deploy because of the onerous study requirement associated with such study conditions,” he said. This week, health minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the government has secured an additional 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which was a dual dose regimen, which meant that it would cover an additional five million lives, said Nicolaou.
The government also announced that SA would be receiving Sinopharm and Sputnik V vaccines and both of these were at registration phase with the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority , he said, adding that there were no further details on the supply and delivery schedules for the two vaccines.
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