SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Budget bungle leaves SA behind in Covid vaccine race
By late November, 9.8-billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been preordered around the world – before a single candidate had come to market. None seem bound for our shores any time soon
04 December 2020 - 06:00
At 7am on Monday, the UK will begin inoculating frontline workers for Covid 19, having this week approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine for emergency use.
A total 800,000 doses of the vaccine are already wending their way to that country, bound for the 50 hospitals that will serve as initial inoculation points...
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