South Africa gives up Covid-19 vaccine boosters, for now

South Africa’s Department of Health has no plans to buy bivalent covid-19 vaccine boosters, in particular, designed to target Omicron variants anytime soon, writes Adele Baleta for Spotlight. Johnson booster dose (J

Bivalent boosters come with a component of the original Covid-19 strain to provide broad protection and a component of the omicron variant to target subvariants.

South Africans over the age of 60 with comorbidities should be vaccinated. South Africa has been the worst-affected country in Africa with more than four million reported cases and 103,000 deaths.

Pfizer and BioNTech have reached an agreement with a South African company to produce their COVID-19 vaccine for distribution in Africa, Voice of America reports. The BiovacArray. . Read more »

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, the country’s vaccination program has reached a welcome milestone with the arrival of 325,260 doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. . . Read more »

Speaking at the G7 Leaders’ Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa called on all G7 members to give up intellectual asset rights over Covid19 vaccines and dedicate themselves to Array. Read more »

Coloured scanning electron micrograph of an inflamed mobile (blue) with a variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus remnants (UK B. 1. 1. 7; violet), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at NIAID’s Center for Integrated Research (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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