Professor says dumping suspended AstraZeneca will be wasteful
09 February 2021 - 11:01
By Lindile Sifile
Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/Pool via REUTERS The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine rollout has been put on hold. File photo.
Don't throw away the one million AstraZeneca jabs. Give them to healthier people.
This is what experts have advised the government to do with the more than a million vaccines that arrived in the country last week after they were found not to offer protection against mild to moderate disease caused by the dominant Covid-19 variant in SA.
Last week, the first batch of AstraZeneca vaccine from India arrived in SA amid renewed hope in the fight against Covid-19.
But professor of vaccinology at Wits University Shabir Madhi said a vaccine trial by his team showed that up until the end of October, the vaccine presented potential and people who took a dose were 75% less likely to be infected.
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