South Africa to get first Covid-19 vaccines next week
Bloomberg28 January 2021
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South Africa’s first vaccines will arrive in the country on Feb. 1, signaling the start of an inoculation program that has been criticized for its tardiness.
The first million of 1.5 million doses of the shot developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford and produced by the Serum Institute of India Ltd have been cleared by South African regulators for use, health minister Zweli Mkhize said at a press conference Wednesday.
They will be ready for distribution 10 to 14 days later, he said. The campaign will prioritize 1.25 million health workers.
NEW DELHI (Bloomberg): Most of the world is struggling to secure enough Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate their populations. India has the opposite problem: Plenty of shots, but a shortage of people willing to take them.
Read more about India s unusual Covid vaccine problem: Plenty of shots, but few takers on Business Standard. While vaccine hesitancy has surfaced in places like Japan and Brazil, and China s candidates have also faced questions over data, the scale of the problem in India is by far the biggest