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On Wednesday 17 February at 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.
These jabs are reserved for health workers who are participating in the national health department and South African Medical Research Council’s Covid vaccine roll-out implementation study.
But why then could President Cyril Ramaphosa, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and other public figures receive jabs too?
And why did the Johnson & Johnson vaccines not go for tests at the National Control Laboratory in Bloemfontein like the AstraZeneca jabs that arrived earlier this month did?