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Africa Pharma Brief: South Africa Restricts Medical Exports Shem Oirere
June 10, 2020
AS the Covid-19 pandemic ravages the globe, there are fears of a possible spike in the level of disruption of health care services and the medical supply chain especially for essential medicines.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub to be set up in South Africa europeanpharmaceuticalreview
June 23, 2021
A South African consortium will be the first to establish a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub to scale up vaccine production and access.
South Africa restarts inoculation with J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine pharmaceutical-technology
April 30, 2021
South Africa has resumed inoculation of health care workers with Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) single-dose Covid-19 vaccine after a pause of over two weeks due to rare blood clot reports.
LDCs support India, South Africa’s request to waive COVID vaccine-related IPR expresspharma
April 15, 2021
The 46-member grouping of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) has said it supports a request made by India and South Africa to the WTO to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights for the COVID-19 vaccines to increase their access in these ...
SII repays South Africa for COVID-19 vaccines that were not delivered expresspharma
April 12, 2021
The Serum Institute of India has fully refunded South Africa for the 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which were not delivered to the country after it decided not to use the vaccine because it was not effective against a new variant of the virus.
South Africa sells COVID-19 vaccines procured from AstraZeneca to other AU member states expresspharma
March 23, 2021
The country had paused AstraZeneca vaccinations last month because of a small trial showing the shot offered minimal protection against mild to moderate illness caused by the dominant local coronavirus variant.
Moderna sends South Africa variant-specific vaccine for clinical study pharmatimes
February 26, 2021
Moderna has shipped doses of a variant-specific vaccine candidate against the COVID-19 variant first discovered in South Africa, otherwise known as B.1.351, to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for clinical study.
South Africa asks SII to take back one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine: Reports expresspharma
February 18, 2021
South Africa’s health minister had informed last week that the government could sell AstraZeneca’s vaccine.
South Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive by plane expresspharma
February 02, 2021
The vaccine shots will be checked over roughly 10 to 14 days before they will be distributed to the country’s nine provinces.
Moderna believes its vaccine will protect against new COVID-19 variants expresspharma
January 26, 2021
The company said it found no reduction in the antibody response against the variant found in Britain.

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