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South Africa restarts its vaccine drive as the first country to use the Johnson & Johnson shot
South Africa is poised to achieve a milestone in the worldwide response to the coronavirus pandemic when it becomes the first country to administer a Covid-19 vaccine created by the pharma giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) this week.Developed by Janssen, J&J’s vaccine-making subsidiary, the vaccine has shown in human trials to be highly effective at preventing severe illness from a variant of the virus that emerged in South Africa in December ,and has since appeared in at least 32 countries. The country hit hardest by the coronavirus on the continent, South Africa has experienced 1.5 million cases of Covid-19 and at least 48,000 deaths since last March.J&J is awaiting approval of its vaccine in

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