South Africa: Country’s regulator approves Pfizer’s booster vaccine amid rising cases of corona
Amidst a sharp increase in cases of Kovid-19 in South Africa, a country found to be new variants of Corona, people over the age of 18 years have been approved to be given a booster dose of Pfizer’s anti-Kovid-19 vaccine. In the last 24 hours, about 20 thousand cases of infection have been reported in the country, in which most of the cases are of new form of virus, Omicron infection. The South African Health Products Authority (SAHPRA) on Wednesday announced the use of Pfizer’s anti-Covid-19 vaccine after pharmaceutical giants BioNTech and Pfizer announced that two doses of their vaccine against the Omicron form may not be sufficient. Approved.
Lockdown has been imposed in the country
The Health Products Authority said that, for people over the age of 18, at least six months after the second dose of the vaccine, or for children over the age of 12 with weakened immunity, the third dose is 28 days after the second dose. can be given. This decision of the SAHPRA comes after a record 19,842 new cases were reported in South Africa in the last 24 hours. Due to the death of 36 people due to infection in South Africa, the death toll has also crossed 90 thousand. More than 60 percent of these cases of infection are from Gauteng province, the country’s economic center. Speculation of a more stringent lockdown in the country has intensified amid increasing cases of infection. The first level of lockdown has been implemented in South Africa at this time with fewer restrictions. There are five levels of lockdown in terms of restrictions to prevent infection.
President can meet
The country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to hold urgent meetings with the Corona Command Council and his cabinet soon after returning from a week-long visit to four West African countries on Thursday. However, in South Africa, people are still hesitant to get vaccinated, despite repeated appeals for vaccination from the government, various organizations and businesses. Health Minister Joey Fala expressed concern on Monday, saying that hospitals were filling up beds rapidly, although most cases were not of a serious nature. Jacques van Juydam, chief director of the Department of Population and Development in the Department of Social Development, said in a webinar for BRICS countries on the demographic impact of the pandemic on Tuesday that the pandemic has reduced South Africa’s life expectancy by three and a half years.
