Dhlomo urges MPs to use election campaign to encourage SA to get vaccinated

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Deputy minister of health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has told parliament that the upcoming local government elections are not going to negatively affect the country’s vaccination programme.

SA will be expected to have received a total of 31-million doses of J&J and 30-million of Pfizer, in total, by the end of the year, said Crisp.

“We have a surplus of capacity at the moment, with a lot of vaccines sitting in our central stores and sufficient in our pipeline both for first and second dose. We have shifted out some of the deliveries so that we do not accumulate unnecessary vaccines and also so that when we do get vaccines a little bit later, those will have a later expiry date and we do not run the risk of getting vaccines now and then the expiry date is too soon and we are not able to use it.

He told MPs that South Africans who wish to report deaths after immunisation to contact the No Fault Compensation Fund, which has been given funds by the Treasury to pay out complainants. “There have been regulations published. We are busy revising those regulations to simplify them and in due course they will be gazetted," he said.

 

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