Govt hoping to vaccinate 1.1 million by end-March, Mkhize tells MPs Updated
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Health Minister
Zweli Mkhize has told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that
government hopes to inoculate 1,1 million people by the end of March.
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Over the next
few weeks South Africa will receive 500 000 doses from Johnson
& Johnson and another 600 000 from Pfizer. It will be
able to get over 1,1 million people vaccinated between now and hopefully the
end of March,” he said.
That process
is going to ensure that all the health workers either get the one dose or the
first dose, which means we will have about two to three months to get to give
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.