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:
Today we are pleased to announce that, following SAHPRA’s recommendation on 17 April 2021 and Cabinet’s concurrence on 21 April 2021, the vaccine rollout will re- sume through the Sisonke Programme on Wednesday, 28 April 2021 #vaccine #VaccineRolloutSA pic.twitter.com/wOrZ68THaz
— Department of Health (@HealthZA) April 26, 2021
The Sisonke programme has, on hand, all the doses it needs to complete vaccinating 500 000 health care workers through the early access protocol and the the teams have been eagerly standing by, looking forward to making up for lost time by completing this programme in time. pic.twitter.com/K6c0Iwgwnu
— Department of Health (@HealthZA) April 26, 2021
