SA’s last shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer will expire at the end of July. Doses not used by then will be destroyed. Find out more about VaccineRolloutSA. | Bhekisisa_MG
According to the health department, SA has received a total of 60,606,060 Covid vaccines — 39,272,220 Pfizer doses and 21,333,840 J&J doses .
In the provinces, jabs are stored at various venues — provincial warehouses , pharmacies at hospitals, and clinics and private pharmacies , from where they are distributed to vaccination sites. Wastage is the highest in the Northern Cape , where cold-chain storage is a challenge and jabs have to be transported for long distances to sites. The second-highest wastage is in the Western Cape . More Pfizer than J&J shots have gone to waste, as most doses administered in the country are Pfizer jabs and Pfizer has more complicated cold chain requirements than J&J.because they are biologically more stable and have less stringent temperature storage requirements.
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