SA yet to provide clarity on vaccine procurement
Treasury has allocated R500m towards the Covax scheme but agreements with pharma companies will be needed to protect the wider community
03 December 2020 - 12:19
SA is yet to provide clarity on how it plans to order vaccines, even as the global race to secure inoculations accelerates.
SA is hosting three trials, including for Johnson & Johnson and a partnership between AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, yet has not announced a firm strategy to immunise a population that’s bracing for a potential resurgence of the pandemic. Almost 22,000 people have died of Covid-19 in SA, the 14th-highest worldwide...
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