Government to resume vaccine roll-out with J&J vaccine

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By Liesl Smit


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The Department of Health has announced that following SAHPRA’s recommendation, and Cabinet’s concurrence, the vaccine rollout programme using the J&J vaccine will resume through the Sisonke Programme on Wednesday, 28 April 2021.

More than 292 000 health workers have been vaccinated thus far.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine had been temporarily suspended after very rare occurrences of blood clots in patients in the USA.

Full statement below:

 

Liesl Smit
Liesl Smit
Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm

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