Security beefed up at warehouse housing COVID-19 vaccine
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
Biovac, the biopharmaceutical company, tasked with distributing the country's Covid-19 vaccines says it's beefed up security at its warehouse.
A million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine landed in Johannesburg from India yesterday.
The first batch will be administered to frontline healthcare workers.
Morena Makhoana, the CEO of Biovac, spoke from the warehouse where the vaccines were being unpacked last night.
They will now be sent for quality testing.
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"This is where we have big cold rooms that hold a lot of vaccines and mainly for children's vaccines. The product is being unpacked and the temperature has been checked and it's been put in the various locations that have been earmarked in these rooms. So, we will be taking some samples," says Makhoana.
This week the vaccines will be going to the National Control Laboratory where they will undergo independent testing. The testing is to verify that everything this claimed to be in the vaccine is in it.
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Makhoana also spoke about their security system, "Vaccines typically do not attract a lot of security issues. The injectables are of very little use to the layman. However, in this case, we have heightened security because we just don't know what will happen so on our premises we have security, private security and the police."
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