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Health-care workers in J&J vaccine trial must re-consent as roll-out resumes By Staff Reporter Share CAPE TOWN – The Western Cape Health Department said that the health-care workers who have been vaccinated already as part of the Johnson and Johnson Sisonke Programme, will have to re-consent to participating as the roll-out resumes today. The Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Sisonke Programme to vaccinate health-care workers, is part of the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in the country which resumes today. The vaccine trial was paused temporarily to ensure the safety of the vaccine ...

28 April 2021, 9:39 AM  |  SABC  |  @SABCNews Image: ReutersThe rollout of the J&J vaccine is set to resume on Wednesday through the Sisonke programme. The South African Health Products Authority (SAHPRA) says recipients of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine will be informed of the possibility of extremely rare blood clots developing, once the injection is administered. The rollout was halted after six patients developed a blood clot after being vaccinated in the United States. It has, however, been prove...

The study was temporarily paused two weeks ago after six American women suffered an extremely rare clotting disorder, after receiving the J&J vaccine.

DA threatens legal action after KZN health department blocks vaccine oversight tour By IOL Reporter Share DURBAN - THE DA has threatened to seek legal action after officials were blocked from conducting an oversight visit at one of KwaZulu-Natal’s vaccination sites this afternoon. DA KZN leader, Francois Rodgers, said they were blocked from entering the Phoenix Community Health Centre. The visit formed part of the party’s nation-wide tour of vaccination sites after the Sisonke Programme resumed today. Rodgers said when they arrived at the site, they were told they could not enter. ...

Advertisement The federal government says it signed off to receive 29.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine through the African Union (AU). Faisal Shuaib, executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), disclosed this at a media briefing on Monday. Advertisement Shuaib said apart from the expected doses, the government will preserve 50 percent of available AstraZeneca vaccine in Nigeria for administration of second doses because of delay in supply of vaccines. He added that more vaccines are also expected through the United Nations-led ...