{"id":999781,"date":"2022-02-22T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/no-south-africans-didnt-take-the-wrong-vaccine-government-rubbishes-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:15:54","slug":"no-south-africans-didnt-take-the-wrong-vaccine-government-rubbishes-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/no-south-africans-didnt-take-the-wrong-vaccine-government-rubbishes-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"No, South Africans didn&#8217;t take &#8216;the wrong vaccine&#8217; \u2014 Government rubbishes \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article>\n<p>TimesLiveThe piece, which has been circulated across numerous social media networks in the shape of a news story, says that health minister Dr Joe Phaahla had dropped the \u201cbombshell\u201d lately in light of the irregular procurement of the Heberon interferon Alpha-2B Covid-19 medication from Cuba. The medication was not provided to South Africans.The SA government tweeted an image of the post with a warning that it was \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe information is bogus. Be careful and constantly be attentive to recognize phony news,\u201d it warned.<\/p>\n<p>The repatriation of the interferon to Cuba followed orders and recommendations by a ministerial task force and the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SANDF has obliged and delivered the drugs back to Cuba. We are writing to Sahpra and the auditor-general as the interested parties that we believed we should be re-engaged after we complied,\u201d SANDF head Gen Rudzani Maphwanya told parliament last month.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: NewsRSA.com (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nCuba<br \/>Joe Phaahla<br \/>Rudzani Maphwanya<br \/>SA<br \/>SANDF<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TimesLiveThe piece, which has been circulated across numerous social media networks in the shape of a news story, says that health minister Dr Joe Phaahla had dropped the \u201cbombshell\u201d lately in light of the irregular procurement of the Heberon interferon Alpha-2B Covid-19 medication from Cuba. The medication was not provided to South Africans.The SA government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}