On Thursday, South Africa’s judicial head, Mogoeng Mogoeng, made remarks during a public prayer at Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhleni, which has led to his criticism. He openly condemned the Covid-19 vaccine.
Mogoeng prayed against any “vaccine that is of the devil meant to infuse 666 in the lives of people.” He further claimed that the vaccines would forge ahead “a satanic agenda of the mark of the beast.”
A couple of vaccines have been proposed to help control Covid-19. Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is an example of the vaccines with a high success rate. The vaccine has received an emergency-use approval by the US Food and Drug Administration.
African countries are to start receiving the Covid-19 vaccines by mid-next year to COVAX programme . To meet the herd immunity threshold, Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC), says that the continent should vaccinate 60 percent of its population.
Speaking to Sunday Times Daily, Barry Schoub, a virology professor at Wits University in Johannesburg, was disappointed by the Chief Justice’s remarks. He said that it was unfortunate for someone of high rank to oppose the vaccines meant to control the current epidemic.
Equally important, the South African government has cautioned against spreading uninformed particulars about the Covid-19 vaccines.
In his defense on Friday, Mogoeng questioned why he should take the treatment if he is not positive. He added that he wants “God to destroy it [Pfizer]” and called for quick production of a “clean vaccine.”
The Covid-19 pandemic has so far killed 1.6 million people this year. Earlier in the week, South Africa had declared a second wave and has so far recorded 837,000 cumulative and over 22,700 deaths.
In its trial stages, the Pfizer vaccine has recorded adverse reactions among persons with severe allergies. On the contrary, any linkage of the vaccine with satanic motives is still a mere assumption.
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