Cloete said: “We can do a maximum of 70,000 vaccines next week, unless J&J starts coming back into the system.” In the first week there were 18 sites and by Friday there will be 114. The plan is for 186, but the “supply problem will stymie this”, according to Cloete. “The supply constraints are not regarding the capacity at our sites to administer vaccines. We cannot do the intended 120,000 next week and that big supply constraint is a direct result of the non-delivery and non-release of the J&J doses.” SA had ordered just over 30 million doses of the J&J vaccine, which only requires one jab, while Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, the country’s biggest drugmaker, has a contract to fill and package the vaccine at a local plant.