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South Africa plans to share one million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, which the country received from the world’s largest vaccine producer, India’s Serum Insitut, with other African countries.
7:14 PM, February 16, 2021
The doses should be distributed throughout the African Union, the Health Ministry said.
Vaccination campaign interrupted
South Africa recently suspended the planned vaccination campaign with the AstraZeneca vaccine after study data showed that it offered minimal protection against mild to moderate disease courses in the South African variant of the virus. The Health Ministry rejected a report in the Indian newspaper “Economic Times” that South Africa had asked the Serum Institute to withdraw the million doses.
The South African health minister said last week that the country was suspending the introduction of the vaccine after a clinical study. The study found that the vaccine With the predominant coronavirus variant in the country, only minimal protection against mild to moderate illness offers.
At the same time, according to TGA Health Authority AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine got preliminary approval. It is the second vaccine approved in Australia. The regulator had the vaccine last month. BioNTech / Pfizer approved.
The vaccination program will begin on February 22.
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