THE FIRST: Two weeks ago, Nomsa Mlaba was the first South African nurse to administer a trial vaccine against Covid-19 in SA.Almost a fifth of the 474 South Africans screened for SA’s Covid-19 vaccination trial were excluded from participation due to underlying conditions, including untreated hypertension, a lead researcher told Times Select.
“All of them were asymptomatic on the day of their [nasal] sample collection. Global studies are revealing that many people infected with Covid-19 are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. “We do blood tests for antibodies indicating past infections and nasal swabs, which show current infections. The participants already enrolled into the trial before this protocol amendment, who were found to be positive on the day of vaccination or who had been infected before vaccination, would remain on the trial, Cutland said.“Going forward, those who test positive at the time of screening, or who are found to have been positive before screening, will be excluded from the trial.
Mhlongo is one of 2,000 South Africans from across Gauteng who will take part in a global clinical Covid-19 vaccination trial. Mhlongo, who has been in isolation since having the potential vaccine administered, said medical staff had taken blood samples from him twice. NO ADVERSE EFFECTS: One of the first South Africans to receive a potential vaccination against Covid-19.Another test subject, who asked not to be named, said since protests by anti-vaccine supporters outside Johannesburg’s Wits University, he had been scared to tell people he was taking part in the trial.“People think because some of us are poor, or come from Diepkloof [Soweto] or other poor areas, we don’t know what we are doing, and that we are allowing people to experiment on us and kill us.
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