{"id":121069,"date":"2021-05-03T08:59:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121069"},"modified":"2021-05-03T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:59:31","slug":"covid-19-pfizer-to-ship-4-5-million-vaccine-doses-to-south-africa-by-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121069","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Pfizer to ship 4.5 million vaccine doses to South Africa by June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Pfizer-to-ship-4-5-million-vaccine-doses-to-South-Africa-by-June-1249108?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/788\/78820328.295.jpg\" alt=\"Pfizer Inc. will ship 4.5 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa by June\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Pfizer Inc. will ship 4.5 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa by June<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, May 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Pfizer Inc. will ship 4.5 million doses of its\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccines to South Africa by June helping the nation ramp up its inoculation drive.<br><br>The first 325,260 doses will arrive Sunday night, Zweli Mkhize, South Africa\u2019s health minister said in a statement.<br><br>The government also expects Johnson &amp; Johnson to release stock from the Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd.\u2019s plant in the nation by the middle of May following a verification process with regulators, according to the statement. Aspen is making the J&amp;J vaccines under license.<br><br>South Africa, which is the worst-affected country by the coronavirus pandemic on the continent, lags behind emerging market peers in vaccinations. It halted J&amp;J vaccines after health agencies last month called for their suspension in the U.S.<br><br>The J&amp;J shot is a key element to the nation\u2019s vaccination plan and has already been used to inoculate health workers, with no reported adverse effects.<br><br>The government last month awarded tenders to state-backed Biologicals Vaccines Institute of Southern Africa Ltd. and Imperial Logistics Ltd. to import an unspecified quantity of doses, the Department of Health said in a document on its website.<br><br>DSV Healthcare Ltd. was contracted to store and distribute the doses countrywide.<br><br>The government ordered 30 million of the two-dose vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech SE, which in addition to the J&amp;J shots should be sufficient to inoculate more than two thirds of the nation\u2019s 60 million population to achieve herd immunity. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer Inc. will ship 4.5 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa by June PRETORIA, May 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Pfizer Inc. will ship 4.5 million doses of its\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0vaccines to South Africa by June helping the nation ramp up its inoculation drive. The first 325,260 doses will arrive Sunday night, Zweli Mkhize, South Africa\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}