Three non-profit organisations have brought an application in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to stop the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign until a full investigation by independent experts is concluded and outcomes shared.
Respondents in the case brought by Covid Care Alliance, Transformative Health Justice and Free the Children – Save the Nation, are President Cyril Ramaphosa, Health Minister Joe Phaahla, the director-general of the Department of Health, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority and National Treasury.
The applicants’ attorney, Riekie Erasmus, said the case has been referred to the Deputy Judge President to assign the matter.
The case is being brought in two parts, the first being an urgent interdict, while the second is an application for a court-ordered investigation into the vaccination process, side-effects and possible deaths, reports Daily Maverick.
The applicants want the government to stop the approval, procurement, promotion, advertising, encouragement, mandating, distribution, administration and funding of the vaccine in all public and private health facilities.
They also want to prevent the government from saying the vaccine is effective in any way, and to stop all efforts to encourage vaccination.
The court will also be asked to order that no Covid jabs be given to anybody and that all vaccine stations be closed.
In addition, the urgent application seeks to stop the distribution/procurement of vaccines, and further approval of paediatric or emergency Covid vaccines.
The court is also asked to order the government to make a public announcement detailing the procedure to be followed by people who have suffered vaccine-related adverse events.
The application’s second part, to be heard at a later date, asks for an order in the following terms:
• An investigation into the medical and scientific safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines being administered in SA;
• The provision of 50 vials of the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the applicants; and
• The provision of 20 PCR tests from different batches to the applicants;
• The appointment of experts, at the government’s cost, to analyse these – the experts being decided on by the applicants; and
• To order both the government and the applicants to find five people willing to be vaccinated for the first time, and to submit blood samples.
The applicants want an investigation into medical conditions that some people reportedly developed after receiving the vaccine, and into the deaths of people who died after being vaccinated, and the “appearance of unexplained foreign-looking substances in the blood of vaccinated people”.
They also ask for information on cases of myocarditis and a rare blood clotting disorder triggered by the vaccine, and if “spike proteins” are passed on from vaccinated people to the unvaccinated.
Another request is for information on the administration of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Scheme in South Africa. Furthermore, the court was asked to provide access to all agreements concluded with manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines, and if any incentives were paid.
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