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Vaccines arrive in SA, but it’s still a 2-week wait for the first jab – here’s what happens now  Feb 02, 2021, 06:43 AM facebook Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) One million Covid-19 vaccine doses, developed by AstraZeneca and supplied by India’s Serum Institute, have arrived in South Africa. These doses are due to stay in a secure, cold-chain management facility in Johannesburg while awaiting further test results conducted by the National Control Laboratory. Authorisation is expected to be...

After months of uncertainty and confidential negotiations between government and pharmaceutical companies, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in South Africa on Monday afternoon.

The barcoding gap: Can SA protect its Covid jabs from criminals? Full track and traceability of Covid jabs won’t happen during South Africa’s vaccine roll-out, as the health department has not yet adopted the ‘overarching’ system that would make this possible. 29 January 2021 - 11:00 Darren Taylor Picture: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann SA’s first Covid-19 vaccines are on course to touch down at OR Tambo on Monday, but they won’t carry the security measures that could best protect them from criminals.  The 1-million AstraZeneca shots, which have been produced by and...

South Africa's first Covid-19 vaccines, that will land on Monday, won't be barcoded, as the Health Department said they would be, making it easier for criminals to steal them.   The AstraZeneca jabs will be given to health workers, so the vials are set to be transported to some public health facilities where theft of medicines has been prevalent.  If the country adopts a security system called GS1, which it considered in 2017, it would make it significantly easier to prevent vaccine theft and falsified jabs from entering the supply chain. South Africa's first Covid-19 vaccines are on course...

South Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccines are on course to touch down at OR Tambo on Monday, 1 February, but they won’t carry the security measures that could best protect them from criminals. The 1 million AstraZeneca shots, produced by and procured from the Serum Institute of India, will be given to frontline healthcare workers, so the vials are set to be transported to some public health facilities where theft of medicines has been prevalent.  The Serum Institute and South Africa’s Department of Health have confirmed to Bhekisisa that the vaccines will not be barcoded. A source at the ...