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Sisonke Protocol expected to restart A healthcare worker is vaccinated at Klerksdorp Hospital as part of the Sisonke (Together) programme. Sisonke will be rolled out to as many as 500,000 healthcare workers across the country. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority recommended last weekend that the Sisonke Protocol can continue to vaccine – if a set of new conditions are met. No healthcare workers have been vaccinated since it was suspended on 13 April. The regulatory authority’s president, Prof Glenda Gray, has assured that “extremely rare” si...

Country’s mass coronavirus vaccination campaign is scheduled to start on May 17, says health minister 20.04.2021 ANKARA South Africa on Monday reported 744 new COVID-19 cases and 21 related deaths, the country's health minister said. The new numbers pushed the caseload in the country to above 1.567 million, including 53,757 deaths and over 1.49 million recoveries, Zwelini Mkhize added. A total of 343,420 senior citizens aged 60 and above have registered for vaccination so far, he said. More than 10 million coronavirus tests have been conducted nationwide to date, Mk...

Western Cape's vaccine preparations on track “Having being presented with the mass vaccination rollout plan for the Western Cape, I was pleased to note that the province has given full consideration to the interventions that need to be implemented such that the province can vaccinate the nearly five million citizens targeted for that region.” Enough vaccine for public and private hospitals “I am also pleased the province’s plan aligns with the national department of health strategy. I reassured premier Alan Winde and health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo that the national department secured e...

SAHPRA recommends that government resumes the J&J vaccine rollout SAHPRA recommended that the Sisonke Study, which provides healthcare workers with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, should be resumed. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) recommended that the pause on the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine Sisonke study should be lifted, on Saturday, 17 April. Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize suspended the study on Tuesday, 13 April, following a caution issued by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after six women, out of approximately 6.6 million ...

Hope that J&J vaccinations will resume, despite clotting concerns The Sisonke Protocol vaccinated 292,623 healthcare workers before it was paused. Speaking to The Citizen on Monday morning, Gray said she hoped Sahpra would allow the vaccinations to continue. Source Monday, 19 April 2021, 16:00 Healthcare workers receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccines at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Photo: Michel Bega NATIONAL NEWS - Professor Glenda Gray, co-principal investigator of the Sisonke implementation study, ...