Within the next two to three months, the country is scheduled to receive around 31 million additional doses from Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
As a result, more than 6.3 million Covid-19 doses have been administered, with over 10% of the country’s population having received a shot.
However, he said that some areas were not out of the woods yet, as the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape have continued to see a rise in cases. Gauteng, which was the epicentre of the third wave, has seen a decrease in cases. The local manufacturing company will not be producing the vaccines from scratch, but will import the drug substance from Pfizer BioNTech facilities in Europe, and will begin the “fill and finish” process early next year.
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