‘We Would Certainly Like To Vaccinate The Population As Fast As We Can’

Q. South Africa had originally planned to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine until a number of issues arose; what made the National Department of Health decide this was the most viable vaccine to use?

There were several [factors] that influenced this decision. The first of these was that in terms of vaccine supply, the stocks for the likes of Pfizer and Moderna were already almost completely distributed and we would not have gotten stocks