The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine doses packaged at the Aspen plant in the Eastern Cape will stay in Africa, and those doses already shipped to Europe, will be returned.

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3 September 2021

The AU’s special envoy Strive Masiyiwa says the arrangement, whereby J & J was shipping vaccines from South Africa to Europe, has been suspended. J & J had shipped about 20-million doses to Europe and the halting of the shipments was partly due to interventions by President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

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Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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South Africa has recorded 9 203 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, over the latest 24-hour monitoring period.

More than 250 000 vaccines doses have been administered in the country, in the latest 24-hour cycle, pushing total inoculations to over 13-million.

The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine doses packaged at the Aspen plant in the Eastern Cape will stay in Africa, and those doses already shipped to Europe, will be returned.

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