SA working with AU to secure vaccine for 10-million people
SA urgently needs to scale up daily vaccinations from about 5,000 to about 250,000 to hit its target of immunising 40-million people
05 March 2021 - 14:40
SA is negotiating with an AU platform to buy Covid-19 vaccines for at least 10-million of its people, a senior health official said on Friday.
SA was provisionally allocated 12-million doses developed by AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in an AU vaccine plan, but it was unclear how many vaccines it would seek to buy after it halted plans to use the AstraZeneca shot...
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