The barcoding gap: Can SA protect its Covid jabs from criminals? Full track and traceability of Covid jabs won’t happen during South Africa’s vaccine roll-out, as the health department has not yet adopted the ‘overarching’ system that would make this possible. 29 January 2021 - 11:00 Darren Taylor Picture: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann SA’s first Covid-19 vaccines are on course to touch down at OR Tambo on Monday, but they won’t carry the security measures that could best protect them from criminals. The 1-million AstraZeneca shots, which have been produced by and procured via the Serum Institute of India, will be given to frontline health-care workers, so the vials are set to be transported to some public health facilities where theft of medicines has been prevalent.