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18 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
[Thread] 1. Nicholas Crisp from @HealthZA: Since the start of #VaccineRolloutSA the lack of availability of jabs has constrained us. SA got 300 000 #JnJ jabs on Thu and will now (next week) start to vaccinate 582 000 school staff (public +private).

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2. School staff will be vaccinated within 10 working days. All provincial health/edu dpts will focus on vaccinating school staff during this period. 300 000 jabs are not enough, but we're getting more next week, also on a short exirry date (11 August).
3. The education departments will arrange transport for teachers and other school staff to special vaccination sites. They need to take their ID docs and also their medical aid cards, if they belong to one, to the sites.
4. Vaccinations for 145 000 police and about 30 000 civilians helping police will follow after school staff have been vaccinated. There will be service providers vaccinating police and GEMS will also cover some of the workers.
5. There will also be a programme for the SANDF and correctional services. The SANDF has its own medical health service which will help with vaccinations. Inmates will be vaccinated through correctional services.
6. Besides the #PFizer vaccines we already have in the country, we will get an additional 2 million doses soon.

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19 Jun
[Thread] 1. LATEST details re the teacher/school staff #VaccineRollOutSA.

1. Which jab will be used? #JNJ
2. How many doses are needed? 1 per person
3. When will it start? Wed, 23 Jun
4. When will it end? Thurs, 8 Jul
5. How many school staff need to get vaccinated? 582 564 ImageImage
2. Who qualifies?

1. EVERYONE at gov schools
- 395 682 teachers
- 104 111 support staff
- 42 671 teachers/early childhood development staff

2. EDUCATORS working at (legally registered) private schools
- 42 671 teachers, but no support staff

3. Education dpt office staff ImageImage
3. Who else at government schools can get vaccinated?

1. Staff who transport children to and from schools
2. School feeding scheme staff
3. Staff who do remote learning programmes
4. Teacher union, security, cleaning staff Image
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18 Jun
[Thread] 1. Helen Rees (Sahpra board chair): SA can only approve #COVID jabs for use if they've applied with @SAHPRA1.
* SA has approved: #AstraZeneca, #JnJ, #Pfizer
* @SAHPRA1 is looking at applications from Sinovac and Sputnik
* No other jabs have applied for approval
2. Where is @SAHPRA1 at with Sputnik? Sahpra has requested more data - Sputnik hasn't submitted all the data that is required for a complete review of the safety and efficacy of the jab.
3. One of the issues with the Sputnik jab is that the type of adenovirus it uses is similar to one used an an HIV vaccine trial that was stopped early because there was data which suggested that it led to an increased risk of HIV infection among uncircumcised men.
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17 Jun
[Thread] 1. What do we know so far from @HealthZA about #CovidVaccinations for school staff:
1. 300 000 #JnJ jabs will be in SA by Fri (tomorrow)
2. Another batch from the US will arrive next week (nr of doses = not yet known)
3. Vaccinations will start on Wed, 23 Jun
2. Who qualifies?
1. All school staff (so not just teachers, cleaners, etc too) will be covered, regardless of age
2. Both public and private schools qualify
3. @healthza says between 550 000 and 580 000 staff need to be vaccinated.
3. When do the jabs expire?
@healthza says = 11 August (the FDA and Sahpra have approved an extension from 28 June to 11 August), but the aim is to try and vaccinate school staff within 10 days.
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15 Jun
1. [Thread] #CyrilRamaphosa on #VaccineRolloutSA: #JnJ will deliver 2 million jabs to SA by the end of June (so the 2 million doses we can’t use will all be replaced by the end of the month). Read our @Bhekisisa_MG story about this. bit.ly/3cFxdgo
2. #CyrilRamaphosa: Our first 300 000 #JnJ doses will be used to vaccinate teachers and school staff. Thereafter the next essential workers group that will be prioritised will be security personnel on the frontline. BUT: Our immediate task is to vaccinate people of 60+.
3. #CyrilRamaphosa : SA has the capacity to vaccinate 150 000 people/day (we’re currently doing 80 000 because of a lack of jabs - until our #JnJ jabs arrive).
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15 Jun
[Thread] 1. #CyrilRamaphosa: Restrictions are effective in bringing down #COVID infections. But although we have reason to hope, we still have a mountain to climb.
2. #CyrilRamaphosa: A third wave of infections are upon us. Since my last family meeting (2 weeks ago), the average nr of new infections has doubled from 3 700 daily infections to over 7500. Deaths have increased by 48% from 535 to 791 in the past 7 days.
3. #CyrilRamaphosa: Gauteng is particularly bad. The increase in #COVID infections in Gauteng is now worse than they were in previous waves at the same stage of the wave.
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13 Jun
[Thread] 1. BREAKING: Both President #CyrilRamaphosa and acting health minister Mamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane have confirmed that the FDA found SA's 2 million #JnJ jabs at Aspen in Gqeberha unsuitable for use. They can therefore not be released.
2. Mamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane (sent to me 17:45):
"I can confirm that 2 mil doses at Gqeberha have been affected + will not be used. Only 1 batch was regarded contaminated from USA + the other 1 was not but because they were stored together, it’s difficult to isolate one batch."
3. #CyrilRamaphosa at the G7 summit this afternoon: “I’m told they [Aspen] have to dispose of those they have already manufactured. They are going to start all over again with another batch.
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