By Neo Kolane
Lesotho is expected to receive a shipment of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine later this month, after receiving receiving AstraZeneca doses last week.
The Pfizer vaccine has been developed by an American corporation called Pfizer in New York and BioNTech, a German biotechnology company based in Mainz, Germany.
However, BioNTech are the originators of the vaccine. Founded by two German scientists, the company normally develop cancer immunotherapies but during the pandemic, they have turned their attention to Covid-19.
At the launch of the AstraZeneca vaccine, health minister Semano Sekatle said only a limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine that will be purchased because of limitations in the country’s storage facilities.
“We have been told that the Pfizer vaccine can stay up to 30 days in temperatures of -2 to -8 degrees Celsius,” Sekatle told theReporter
