Johnson & Johnson vaccine to arrive in SA today - SAMA
The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in the country on Tuesday, according to the South African Medical Association (SAMA).
The organisation's chairperson, Dr Angelique Coetzee, says the announcement was made by the Department of Health and South African Medical Research Council on Tuesday.
Coetzee believes the vaccine rollout is expected to start on Wednesday, or at the latest on Thursday.
"We are also pleased to announce that during this first vaccination, the general practitioners have been allocated the next two Sundays between 10 am and 8 pm a slot to be vaccinated because they are frontline workers.
"But the other days it will be the public sectors and nurse and also frontline workers that will be vaccinated.”
The South African Medical Research Council is expected to handle the vaccination processes.
