Delivery points for COVID-19 jab yet to be finalised
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
Biovac, the biopharmaceutical company tasked with storing and distributing the country's COVID-19 vaccines says delivery points for the first batch are being regularly updated.
The first consignment of one million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrived from India on Monday.
Frontline healthcare workers will be the first to receive them.
Biovac CEO Morena Makhoana says the national department will be in touch with provinces.
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"They will then essentially do the correlation because each province will say look, I have so many destinations, we then as Biovac will need to deliver to those so we will deliver according to the schedule we have been given to all provinces."
KZN will receive its doses in 11 days.
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