S. Africa Medical Research Council Can’t Access Vaccination Data

Syringes containing a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine ready for administration at the Atzavara nursing home in Catalunya, Spain, on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. On Monday, Spain became the fourth European country to record more than 50,000 coronavirus deaths. , Bloomberg

Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg News

Dec 6, 2021

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(Bloomberg) -- The South African Medical Research Council said it cannot access the country’s Covid-19 vaccination data and it is working to amend a data sharing agreement with the Department of Health.

The inability to access the data may impinge on the organization’s ability to determine the impact of the omicron variant on mortality, it said in a statement on Monday. 

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