London, April 29, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa has resumed giving the Johnson & Johnson J&J )vaccine to health care workers after a more than two-week pause in the use of the only COVID-19 inoculation in the country. South Africa on Wednesday restarted its drive to inoculate 1.2 million health care workers with the J&J vaccine. South ...

London, April 14, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma has until Wednesday to suggest the penalty the country’s highest court will hand him in the event he is found guilty of contempt. In February Mr Zuma had failed to appear before Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo’s commission of inquiry to answer corruption allegations, which he ...

 London, April 2, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has approved the registration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine for those younger than 18. The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of J&J made the announcement today of the approval, with conditions. The pharmaceutical giant said data from the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE study showed ...

London, March 27, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Parked on the roadside next to a graveyard in Cape Town’s Gugulethu township, a tuberculosis (TB) hotspot, a team of health workers set up a makeshift TB screening room next to their van Gladys Rara, 45, provides a sputum sample and within 90 minutes results are ready. The rapid testing model, ...

London, March 20, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa has set up a 5 billion rand ($340 million) fund to help Black farmers gain access to capital and boost their role in commercial agriculture, state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the government said on Thursday. The joint Agri-Industrial Fund is aimed at easing the funding constraints and entry ...

London, March 14, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa could receive additional 20 million doses of J and J vaccine depending on the availability of stock This is part of the agreement it penned with Johnson & Johnson while buying the initial 11 million COVID-19 vaccine doses its health minister said. “The agreement has been signed off for ...

London, March 1 , 2021 (AltAfrica)-Two new Covid-19 vaccines are being refined in South Africa with the potential to outsmart current and future variants – strengthening the fight against the pandemic. The new covid-19 vaccines, Shantivax and had5 are considered to be the next-generation Covid-19 vaccines. READ ALSO: U.S. FORMALLY AUTHORIZES THE SINGLE SHOT JAB, ...

London, Feb. 25, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa plans to spend $712 million to vaccinate some 67% of its 60 million people to control the country’s COVID-19 battle and get the economy to rebound from its decline of 7.2% last year. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said the vaccination drive will help South Africa’s economy, the most developed ...

London, Feb. 24, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa t is expected to take delivery of its second batch of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine by the weekend. Speaking during a debate on the government’s roll-out plan, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said the batch – consisting of 80 000 doses – will arrive on Saturday READ ...

London, Feb. 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africa is rapidly moving to protect its highly valued healthcare workers through the Sisonke Early Access Programme, the health department said.  By the end of Saturday, more than 10 000 healthcare workers had already been successfully vaccinated, the Health Department said on Sunday. Vaccination RolloutThe number of health care workers ...