South Africa blasts ‘unreasonable’ demands of vaccine manufacturers as Pretoria suspends J&J Covid jab

The South African

The South African health minister has hit out at Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, telling colleagues that the government has had to navigate difficult clauses and put the country’s finances at risk to secure jabs.

“As government we have found ourselves in a precarious position of having to choose between saving our citizens’ lives and risking putting the country’s assets into private companies’ hands,” Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told colleagues in a virtual meeting on Wednesday. The minister said that the country is paying $10 per dose for the J&J and Pfizer vaccines, neither of which are refundable under any circumstances. 

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