News24 reports that the Covid-19 vaccination booster programme kicked off on Tuesday among healthcare workers who took part in the original Sisonke study.
The SA Medical Research Council and the Department of Health said they wanted to get the boosters in before the fourth wave of the pandemic, which is expected to start in December, in order to protect the healthcare workers. For the present, boosters will only be available to healthcare workers who took part in the Sisonke trial. They will receive an invitation by SMS on the number they used to enrol for the first part of the study, and will be required to give consent online again via a form on the EVDS. The department stressed that healthcare workers who received an unauthorised dose of Pfizer must not go for the booster offered in the Sisonke trial as there was not enough data yet on the possible effects of mixing vaccines.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jenni Evans at News24
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