Starting Wednesday, children can receive a single Pfizer dose, with a second shot delayed to allow for further study on a rare side effect, the minister added. More than one third of all adults in South Africa have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the minister added. T...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa on Friday started vaccinating some children and adolescents as part of the global Phase 3 clinical trials of China’s Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 6 months and 17 years. The global study will enroll 2,000 participants in South...
South Africa has opened eligibility to all adults to step up the volume of inoculations as it battles a surge in the disease driven by the delta variant. Credit
Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said more work needs to be done in setting up systems to manage the logistics and supply chain needs for getting the vaccines to people across the continent.
"Many workplaces in South Africa, by far not the majority, prescribe to mandatory vaccinations - and it is practically illegal for them to do that. There is no legal basis for it," he said. Whether these workplaces will refuse access to part-vaccinated employees is unknown. ...
Thirty-seven confirmed cases caused by the B.1.1.7 variant of the novel coronavirus, first identified in the United Kingdom, had been reported on the Chinese mainland by Feb 10. Another nine confirmed cases were caused by the 501Y.V2 variant, which was first detected in South Africa, the...
shutting schools for much of the last two years and closing borders. Its vaccination programme has seen huge take-up with more than 90 percent of adults receiving two jabs. But the booster programme is seeing patchier success among nomadic communities thanks to both online misinformation and the...
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In December, South Africa’s drug regulator issued a warning about potentially fake Ozempic. That same month, the US said it had seized thousands of units. While the rest of Europe is also working to prevent fake Ozempic entering thei...
The immediate response by the global economic cartel to South Africa’s request for a delay in delivering US pharma jabs on November 24th, 2021, was to declare a new covid variant from South Africa 48 hours later and then isolate the country from the rest of the world. This has asignific...