On Thursday the department is meeting with the interministerial committee to urge that people be vaccinated according to age group rather than sector.
On the current vaccine supply, Crisp said as at Tuesday, 2.6m J&J and Pfizer doses were in the country, which is about 15 days of stock. On Sinovac, Crisp said the vaccine has conditional registration with the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority . “The company has been in touch with us in the past week so hopefully that will be expedited. The J&J vaccine situation has been restored and we believe that we are on top of that now and the company has begun giving us pipeline updates.”
Aaah! What nonsense is this? What has been resolved? By who? J&J's vaccine has been discredited for its risks to health. It appears in RSA those risks are resolved by word of mouth among local politicians not by further research by the drug company as is the proper thing.