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Pharmacology expert Dr Siya Ntutela, says stronger advocacy from government could go a long way in helping the continent’s Covid-19 vaccine take up.

Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccination plant at Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape risks shutting down due to a lack of orders., negotiated a licensing deal in November to package and sell Johnson and Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and distribute it across Africa. While there’s been a recent up-tick in covid-19 cases in South Africa, the latest World Health Organisation figures put Africa’s vaccination rate at only a sixth of adults.

Ntutela remains optimistic and says that, “We all know that most vaccines come from Europe, and the Americas, and now with a plant ready to serve and ready to supply many African countries. I think we should be able to see more African countries, coming down South to order these vaccines. It is worrying? Yes it is, but I don’t think to that level where we could be saying let’s throw the baby with the bathwater.

 

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Add the manufacturer of J&J Aspen. Charity begins at home.

doing his masters bid

Nothing can change my mind about vaccines.

The so called experts shall one day answer to this intensional genocide on innocent people just for the sake of the love of money 😢

4kof with your 666 VACCINES AND BOOSTERS...give it to your families and all the ARSEHOLES serving satans agenda...LAWLESSNESS IS OVER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Dr Ntutela must shut up and return the money they bribed him with.

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