It’s your last shot at the Pfizer vaccine before the roll-out changes: Just under a third of South Africa’s Pfizer vaccines are set to expire by July, so the health department is trying to increase uptake of the doses and donate spare shots
According to the health department, South Africa has received a total of 60 606 060 Covid vaccines — 39 272 220 Pfizer doses and 21 333 840 J&J doses .
At provinces, jabs are stored at various venues — provincial warehouses , pharmacies at hospitals and also clinics and private pharmacies from where they are distributed to vaccination sites. “This level of wastage is in line with the internationally accepted rate of 5% or below,” says Crisp. “So the 467 135 vaccines that the 1.4% comes to might sound like a lot of jabs, but, it’s a low rate of wastage.”
“Our J&J vaccines only expire in 2023, so expiry dates of those doses are not an issue right now,” says Crisp. “But our Pfizer jabs expire between seven and nine months after they arrive in South Africa.”
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