South Africa boosts continents vaccines with local manufacturing
Listen to the story. Health care worker Maggie Sedidi receives a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Soweto, South Africa, March 5, 2021. Credit: Share This week, South Africa resumed its rollout of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine to health workers across the country. The country had suspended the vaccine earlier this month over concerns of rare blood clots in the US. South Africa, unlike the US, could not afford to indefinitely suspend its only current vaccine available, especially in light of an overall global shortage of shots, and a third wave of t...
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