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Heidi Giokos

3 May, 8 tweets, 3 min read

The first batch of 325 260 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in SA just before midnight. Vaccines will be taken to a central warehouse and samples will then be sent to the National Control Laboratory for quality assurance. After they will be distributed to provinces #VaccinesSA

Till the end of May SA will receive 325 260 Pfizer vaccines weekly. By end of May SA will have a total of 1.3 Pfizer vaccines. Then 636 480 doses will arrive weekly from 31 May which will accumulate close to 4.5 million doses by end of June. #VaccinesSA

In the meantime SA will continue to vaccinate health care workers with the remaining early access J&J doses through the Sisonke trial. As of Saturday just over 320 000 HCW received the 💉 Once 500 000 healthcare workers are 💉 the country will start with Pfizer. #VaccinesSA

Sisonke Trial for Healthcare workers allowed for 500 000 J&J 💉to be administered. Because the over 1m J&J vaccines are waiting to be released from the EC. Gov will move to the Pfizer vaccines for health care workers.#VaccinesSA

Out of 325 260 Pfizer doses we just received only 162 630 healthcare workers will get the jab because it’s 2 doses per person. Gov said Pfizer will be administered in metropolitan, city and urban areas as it’s easier to store & access here. J&J will be for rural/remote areas.

17 May 2021 is the deadline the country has given for when Phase 2 to begin. That means those 60 and above are expected to get the 💉 first. Country still has over 1 million healthcare workers to inoculate before 17 May. Over 1 J&J #vaccines in EC will be released mid-May.

If you like me and want to choose which 💉 you want, you can’t. Because J&J is one jab, easier to administer and store, gov has opted for it to be used in rural/remote areas. Pfizer is 2 💉 and must be kept at extreme temperatures. This will be for urban/city areas. #VaccinesSA

Those 60 and above have been urged to register for the vaccine if they have not done so:

vaccine.enroll.health.gov.za/#/

Should one not be able to, vaccination centres will allow for registration. #VaccinesSA

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