Thread by @miamalan

[Thread] 1. How many JnJ/Pfizer jabs has SA received?
#JnJ: 300 000 (17 Jun) + 1, 253, 600 (24 Jun) = 1, 553, 600
#Pfizer: 325 260 x 4 (3, 10, 17, 24 May) + 636 480 x 3 (31 May, 7, 14 Jun) + 1, 274, 130 (21 Jun) + 1,392, 300 (COVAX, 27 Jun) = 5, 876, 910

TOTAL = 7, 430, 510

2. How many #COVID doses has SA used?
By 5pm on June 28: 2, 308, 225 doses (according to @healthza's dashboard: sacoronavirus.co.za/latest-vaccine…)

3. How many #JnJ and #Pfizer doses do we have left?
By 5pm on June 28:

7, 430, 510 (all the doses we’ve received) - 2, 308, 225 (doses we’ve used) = 5, 122, 285

(Some batches are still being quality tested at the National Control Lab in Bloem)

4. How many more #COVID19 jab doses are coming?
Q 3: 8, 519, 940 #Pfizer doses; 9, 100, 000 #JnJ
Q 4: 6, 996, 600 Pfizer; 19, 100, 000 JnJ

TOTAL = 43, 716, 540 doses
(Source: @healthza's delivery schedule)

5. What is not included in nr 4 of this thread (the jabs we're getting)?
* We ordered an additional 10m #Pfizer jabs (when they’ll arrive = not yet announced)
* #JnJ still owes us 500 000 jabs of the 2m they need to replace + 1m for Q2 (they were supposed to deliver 3m in Q2) .

6. Why are we not using our jabs quicker?

We have 7, 430, 510 doses, but by 28 Jun we had only used 2, 308, 225.

7. Reason 1: We’re saving some of the jabs for second #Pfizer doses, says @healthza’s Anban Pillay. For each 1st #Pfizer dose, a 2nd dose is stored in a warehouse of the company which delivers the jabs. We started with 2nd #Pfizer jabs on June 28.

8. How many 2nd #Pfizer doses have we used? @healthza’s dashboard doesn't tell us, because the figures combine all the doses (Pfizer 1st + 2nd doses + #JnJ doses).

9. Is there another way to figure out the nr of 2nd doses?

People who got jabs on 17/18 May were due for 2nd doses on Jun 28+29. How many people got 1st jabs on 17/18 May?
Dashboard data:
17 May: 14 705 jabs
18 May 36 961 jabs

So 51 427 people were due for 2nd jabs by 29 Jun.

10. Reason 2: Anban Pillay says the #EVDS allocates sites in cities within 10km of someone’s address + 30km in rural areas. When no site is available within that distance, the EVDS doesn’t assign sites. Up until now, there were areas without sites, so people didn't get scheduled.

11. Reason 3: Anban Pillay says because we’ve only had #Pfizer jabs until recently, many sites, e.g. in rural areas, that weren’t equipped to store Pfizer jabs, couldn’t do vaccinations. LP, MP, NC, EC will get more sites when we start to roll out #JnJ at normal sites.

12. When will we start to roll out #JnJ at normal sites vs. only to essential worker groups? Anban Pillay says this will happen when we receive JnJ jabs with longer expiry dates (the JnJ jabs we’ve received so far expire in August). JnJ hasn’t told us when we'll get more jabs.