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S Africa to sell AstraZeneca vaccines bought from India to African Union countries

Johannesburg: South Africa will sell the one million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine it bought from India to its sister countries in the African Union, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said. Mkhize spoke on Wednesday after he and President Cyril Ramaphosa joined 18 health care workers in Cape Town to receive the first Johnson & Johnson vaccines to boost confidence in the country’s vaccination programme. These new vaccines replaced the old ones delivered by the Serum Institute of India after it was found that they offered limited efficacy against the new variant of coronavirus that has emerged in South Africa. A million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered to South Africa from India last month and a further 5,00,000 were due to be delivered this month to be used in the first phase of rolling it out to health care and other priority workers. PTI