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First came the good news. The European Union authorised a third vaccine. Then, the bad news. Regulators in country after country suggested restricting it to younger people until more testing was done. The decisions marked the start of a delicate new phase of vaccination drives, one in which a growing menu of coronavirus vaccines was accompanied by contentious debates about who should be given which shots. Those debates are a testament to the worlds good fortune in having several strong vaccines only a year into the pandemic. But every vaccine comes with its own idiosyncrasies, including gaps in clinical trial data. And that has thrown up agonising choices for countries already struggling to administer shots, forcing health officials to weigh their qualms about certain vaccines with the need to inoculate people before dangerous variants take hold.

After the EU authorised the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine last week, adding a third shot to the blocs arsenal, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Lithuania, Poland, Austria and Sweden all said they would restrict it to younger people or were considering doing so, citing a scarcity of data on the vaccines efficacy in older people.

Under those plans, older people would instead be scheduled to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, potentially leaving them unvaccinated for a period even as younger people are inoculated with the AstraZeneca shot. But those strategies, tangled as they may be, will at least make a new vaccine available to younger people, scientists said, a scenario far preferable to no one receiving AstraZenecas shot. Some scientists are now urging the United States to adopt the same approach, as the country remains without an alternative to the hard-to-store Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Its regulators refuse to authorise AstraZenecas shot until another clinical trial generates more data, including on how it works in older people. In the absence of that data, targeting the vaccine to those in whom it is known to be effective was an urgently needed stopgap, scientists said all the more so now that the virus is rapidly acquiring new and dangerous mutations.

This is a pragmatic solution to a desperate situation, said Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. Everythings changed. The whole Biden plan made perfect sense up until about three to four weeks ago when we realised the pace of the variants emerging, and therefore you have to adjust. When the British scientists behind the AstraZeneca vaccine planned large-scale clinical trials in Britain and Brazil last year, they played it safe: They chose not to vaccinate older participants until they knew the vaccine was safe in younger ones, a decision that led to fewer older people being inoculated over the course of the trials. Britain, India and other countries authorised the vaccine for all adults anyway, relying on evidence that older people generate significant immune responses to the vaccine, an indicator that it will offer at least some protection. But European Union health officials have been more cautious, hewing closely to the clinical trial findings as they try to ensure that no one outside the most closely-studied groups is vaccinated. Yet, some scientists said that reserving the AstraZeneca shot for younger people would only delay injections for the people most in need of protection.

This complicates the problem, Walter Ricciardi, a professor of public health in Italy and an adviser to the Health Ministry, said of the plans.

What we need at the moment is to protect the most vulnerable people, which for sure is not the people younger than 55 years old. Confusion bubbled up in Italy after regulators there said AstraZenecas vaccine should, with some exceptions, preferably be used on adults under 55. Pfizer and Modernas shots, both mRNA vaccines that have shown roughly 95 percent efficacy in preventing Covid-19, should be given to the most vulnerable people, they said. AstraZenecas vaccine had 62 percent efficacy at two full doses in clinical trials, but it protected all participants against severe illness or death. In Italy, rumours quickly began to spread about who would receive which vaccine.

News reports suggested the AstraZeneca shot would be reserved for younger essential workers, like soldiers, teachers and janitors. But Italians spotted a hole in the plan: Some hundreds of thousands of public workers are too old to be allowed an AstraZeneca shot, but too young to qualify yet for an mRNA vaccine.

Age limits have also thrown vaccine plans into flux in Germany, where an immunisation committee authorised the AstraZeneca vaccine only for adults under 65. Given the limited supplies in Germany, those shots are likely to be reserved for younger medical workers and nursing home aides. Still, some people resisted taking AstraZenecas shot, rather than Pfizers a sign of the way people may grow choosier as more vaccines are authorised. And beyond the question of effectiveness was the matter of where the vaccines were made.

In England, the AstraZeneca shot has become known to many residents simply as the English one, making it all the more attractive. In Germany, the Pfizer shot, developed by scientists from the western city of Mainz, is spoken of with pride as the German one. Scientists have advised people to accept the first vaccine they are offered, given the widespread protections against severe disease and the societal need to tamp down the emergence of new variants. So far, countries have largely tailored vaccine offerings based on where the shots can be stored and transported. The mRNA vaccines must be kept at very cold temperatures, making it difficult to reach older people in rural areas.

The AstraZeneca vaccine, which can be stored in normal refrigerators, would be a boon to older, harder-to-reach residents. But limiting it to younger people would undo those advantages.

Britain, for its part, has achieved one of the worlds fastest vaccination programs in part by using both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines across all adults. But affections for the homegrown AstraZeneca vaccine remain strong, especially after the company published data on Tuesday suggesting that it could reduce transmission of the virus.

The writers are journalists with NYT2020

The New York Times

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The human roulette of vaccination drives - DTNEXT

Mercy Rifundo(42) sentenced to 15 years in jail for smuggling explosives at Beitbridge.Photo: Limpopo Police

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.

In early January, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africas land borders would be closed until at least mid-February due to the Covid-19 crisis. This includes the Beitbridge crossing between South Africa and Zimbabwe, a border that is exceptionally dangerous thanks to what some risk their lives trying to smuggle through it explosives that could ignite at any moment.

Mercy Rifundo, a mother of four from Zimbabwe, farmed beans and occasionally travelled to Johannesburg, where she would stay, to sell her produce.

On 17 August last year, she planned to travel into South Africa, this time apparently under the impression she was also transporting floor polish in her luggage on behalf of people who knew her landlord in Johannesburg.

When she got to the Beitbridge crossing a boy helped her carry her bags across the border. Rifundo then made her way to a taxi rank and got into a vehicle bound for Johannesburg.

Unknown to those around her, had her luggage been jostled a certain way or had the contents rubbed together in a particular manner, several people could have been instantly killed and others maimed.

This is because Rifundo had 496 blasting cartridge units in her luggage. Just one of these is enough to tear open a safe or kill someone.

The type of explosives discovered in her bags are often used in crimes, including ATM blasts, cash-in-transit heists and illegal mining, and could be from operations illicit or legal linked to mines in Zimbabwe.

Rifundo later claimed to be an unwitting explosives mule, but the severity of the crime she was part of was so extreme that the 42-year-old first-time offender is now serving a 15-year jail term in South Africa. This sentence was handed down earlier this month in the Musina Regional Court.

The case against her has emphasised the extreme risks that explosives smugglers who often carry dozens, even hundreds, of blasting cartridges at a time pose to those around them.

Christo Peltz, the safety and risk manager at AECI Mining Explosives, explained that, although there are different grades of explosives, a single blasting cartridge could contain 200 grams of explosive and easily kill someone if it was kept close to their body, and 50 could destroy a vehicle; 500 could wipe out the occupants of a taxi and have a lethal blast radius of 20m.

Limpopos acting Hawks head, Angie Matlabe, referring to the Rifundo case, said: We are determined to fight all types of organised crime in our country, including transnational crimes.

National police spokesperson Vish Naidoo said officers tried to monitor South Africas points of entry and exit. We are responsible for the control of the illegal movement of people and goods at all identified ports of entry (sea, land and air), simply meaning conducting classical policing in a border control environment, he said.

Police worked together with other units including the Hawks, and state agencies including the SA Revenue Service.

Earlier this week Daily Maverick published an Institute for Security Studies article, by Richard Chelin and Willem Els, that warned: The unsafe transportation, storage and use of explosives by criminals is a disaster waiting to happen.

It also said that the police, the lead regulator in terms of explosives in South Africa, were making use of an outdated Act and the police minister should sign and promote the new explosives regulations.

Although the Explosives Act was approved by the president in 2003, it is yet to come into operation. This presents a major problem for law enforcement.

Yet the police have been pushing ahead with arrests.

Every year, several explosives smugglers are intercepted at or near the Beitbridge crossing. During Rifundos trial it was heard that 11 explosives cases were reported in Musina in 2020, 12 in 2019 and 15 in 2018.

The state believed court sentences handed down to smugglers were acting as deterrents to potential illegal explosives transporters, hence the number of related cases had decreased. It is not clear, however, whether Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were taken into consideration when assessing these figures.

According to the state, in Rifundos case, she was arrested when police officers from South Africa stopped the vehicle she was travelling in from the Beitbridge border and searched its boot. This was when they discovered the explosives in her luggage.

In February 2019, Nqobizitha Ncube was also sentenced to 15 years in jail for trying to smuggle explosives from Zimbabwe to South Africa. The 30-year-old had been arrested on 26 September 2018 with two others, who went on to be acquitted.

Rifundo was charged under the Explosives Act as well as the Immigration Act she had no passport on her at the time of her arrest.

She initially pleaded guilty to the charges but then, during proceedings to see if the sentence against her should be reduced, she claimed she had not known she was transporting explosives, but thought she was simply carrying floor polish for people in Johannesburg.

In argument that Rifundo deserved a stiff prison sentence, Maria Makushu of the polices bomb disposal unit testified that the crime committed is serious in that the vehicle utilised to transport the explosives was not a vehicle designed for such and that explosives [are] sensitive to heat and friction and could with the mere bump in the road have exploded, according to a document on the court case provided by the Limpopo National Prosecuting Authority.

She testified that the kind of explosives [are] used in South Africa for illegal purpose[s], ATM bombings, cash-in-transit heists, illegal mining, and indicated that a single blasting cartridge can rip open a safe or kill a person.

The State further argued that, with Beitbridge being the second largest port of entry [which] multiple people frequent on a daily basis, also considering the amount of vehicle[s] and infrastructure, it was a serious offence. Taking into consideration that friction or heat can cause a blasting cartridge to ignite on its own, which would cause the rest of the 495 blasting cartridges to also ignite, this case must be considered as extremely serious.

It was effectively found that, in transporting the explosives, Rifundo had risked the property and livelihood of all people that frequented the border. The fact that she had four minor children was not enough to reduce her sentence. Rifundo was sentenced to 15 years direct imprisonment, and was additionally fined R20,000, or six months in jail, for being an illegal immigrant.

The prison sentence imposed on Rifundo, even as a first-time offender, is not unusual.

In February 2019, Nqobizitha Ncube was also sentenced to 15 years in jail for trying to smuggle explosives from Zimbabwe to South Africa. The 30-year-old had been arrested on 26 September 2018 with two others, who went on to be acquitted.

Ncube had pleaded guilty to the charges she faced, relating to explosives worth R200,000 found in her car.

In aggravation of sentence the state prosecutor, Patricia Dorothy Jacobs, emphasised that the offence was serious with 15 years imprisonment sentence for a first offender, said a statement issued by Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi, the Limpopo National Prosecuting Authoritys spokesperson.

She also pointed [out] that the offence was prevalent in the border post of Limpopo She referred to the evidence of an explosives expert who earlier testified that the kind of explosives were used in commission of ATM bombings and cash-in-transit offences.

Other similar smuggling crimes date back several years. In November 2013, Elita Sibanda was sentenced to eight years in jail for trying to smuggle explosives into SA the previous month. She was 23 years old at the time.

While busy searching the suspects luggage, members discovered 26 plastic cartridges and 100 detonators, a Hawks statement on her conviction said. She indicated that she bought the explosives from a shop in Harare and that she was transporting [them] to South Africa with the intention to sell the devices to illegal miners.

Earlier this month DM168 reported on how illegal mining in SA added to the problem of international smugglers using SA as a transit point to sneak illicit gold into one of the worlds most prolific players in that industry, Dubai. The smuggling of explosives from Zimbabwe adds another link to this chain, further entrenching SA in global organised crime networks. DM168

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