South Africa is on track to procure enough Covid-19 vaccines to meet its vaccination target and could locally produce its own vaccines, President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a national address on Sunday.
J&J have committed to adapt the current arrangement so that South Africa can produce the vaccine locally under licence rather than under contract.“We are negotiating that in time the drug substance itself would be produced here in South Africa, so that we have a fully-owned African vaccine manufactured on African soil in a number of countries on our continent,” said Ramaphosa.
Over 4.2 million South Africans have received a Covid-19 vaccine dose since the start of the roll-out in February and the roll-out is picking up pace with one million of these having been done over the past seven week days. The vaccine roll-out first kicked off in February with the nation’s healthcare workers, then in May it expanded to the over 60s cohort, the education sector workers in June, the over 50s category and police in July, and from August, those over the age of 35 will be able to receive their shots.
The president said plans were in place in all provinces to expand many sites to vaccinate either six or seven days of the week.
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