South Africa is considering swapping or selling the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus, the health minister says.
Plans to use it to vaccinate health workers have been put on hold after a small study suggested a “minimal” effect against the country’s new variant in young people.
It is intending to use a vaccine from Johnson & Johnson instead.
South Africa has one and half million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
South Africa has recorded almost 1.5 million cases of coronavirus, and 47,000 deaths – far more than anywhere else on the continent.
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