How Covid vaccines get approved: 4 things you need to know

South Africa’s medicine regulator Sahpra amended the Johnson & Johnson implementation study’s guidelines to include government officials with a health qualification, the President, and his deputy
There are four different types of approval a vaccine (and medicine in general) can get from our medicine regulator
Our first four batches of Johnson & Johnson vaccines and the 9-million we’ll be getting later are entering the country under different types of registration - that’s why there are different rules for their use
On Wednesday 17 February, around 2pm, South Africa’s first four health workers received their Covid jabs on live television. They each received one of the 80 000 Johnson & Johnson shots that arrived in South Africa on Tuesday.

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