South Africa discards 2 MILLION doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine

Monday, 14 June 2021Newsdesk

South African health authorities have ditched a whopping two million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, because materials for their production came from a US factory in Baltimore that was hit by contamination issues.

New Delhi, 14 June 2021

As per news report of Rt.com, South Africa’s health products safety watchdog (SAHPRA) has decided not to approve the use of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses stored at a plant in the city of Gqeberha, since the material they were produced from was “affected” by a contamination incident at the Baltimore factory, the nation’s health authorities confirmed.The agency suspended use of the doses in question earlier in June as it awaited a safety compliance report from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Source -rt.com