JUST IN: Ramaphosa, Mkhize to get COVID-19 jab today Updated
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The Presidency says they’ll get their Johnson and Johnson shots at the Khayelitsha District Hospital in Cape Town.
Eighty-thousand doses of the single shot vaccine arrived at the OR Tambo International Airport last night.
The Health Department says the Johnson & Johnson jab has been approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority and doses were distributed to provinces overnight.
The rollout is starting today with healthcare workers the first in line to get inoculated.
The J&J vaccine was procured after it was found that the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab wasn’t effective against the new variant first detected in South Africa.
JENNIFER Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, mocked coronavirus conspiracy theorists after receiving her Covid jab noting the vaccine did NOT implant my genius father into my brain .
An Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker in Andhra Pradesh died on Sunday, with fellow workers alleging that she died after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. The incident took place at the Government General Hospital (GGH) in Guntur.
The exact cause of the woman s death would be revealed only after a post-mortem, Guntur district collector Samuel Anand said, but maintained that not a single Adverse Event Following Immunisation was reported in the district. So far, 10,099 healthcare staff in the area have been inoculated.
ASHA workers staged a demonstration in front of the GGH demanding that a compensation of Rs 50 lakh be paid to the deceased s family.
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