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Temperature control

critical in vaccine rollout

Real-ti me temperature monitoring must play a criti cal role in securing SA’s COVID-19 vaccinati on
rollout. By Eckart Zollner, Head of Business Development, Ikhaya Automati on Systems.

outh Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout to ensure the safety and effi cacy of the product.
programme is fi nally underway despite a shaky Logistically, it will be critical to monitor and manage the
Sstart. Aiming to inoculate 67 percent of the temperature conditions of these life-saving vaccinations
population before the end of 2021, the government says in real time across continents, right from manufacture
suffi cient doses for the target population of 40 million through to patient administration. Th is is where
have been secured. technology can assist.

However, distributing those vaccinations to the Which vaccine is South Africa using?
723425 OSFF intended population is going to be a challenging South Africa has acquired the Johnson & Johnson L O GI S T I CS NEWS
vaccine, which is administered as a single dose. We have
endeavour. Particularly because each vaccination
has specifi c temperature-related transport storage already received 80,000 doses of this vaccine, which
requirements which must be strictly maintained has shown to be most eff ective against the prevalent

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