Government poised to finalise key Covid-19 vaccine deals, says health minister
Health minister Zweli Mkhize assured MPs on Tuesday that the government was close to finalising key coronavirus vaccine deals with pharmaceutical manufacturers Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer, and would conclude agreements within a matter of days.
The government has secured a commitment for 9-million doses of J&J’s single shot, and 20-million doses of the double-shot jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, but has been bogged down for weeks in talks with the companies on how to compensate people who suffer adverse events caused by these vaccines. These two deals could provide enough doses to vaccinate almost half of the 40-million people targeted in the government's vaccination strategy...
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