South Africa To Roll Out Covid Booster Shots Next Month
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Health practitioners last month had already started being offered Johnson & Johnson shots as boosters.
South Africa will next month start giving Pfizer booster shots against coronavirus, a health official said Friday, a day after the country reported a near-record high in daily cases of the disease.
"The first people who will qualify for the booster dose in South Africa will be people over the age of 60 years," Dr Nicolas Crisp, director general at the health ministry, told a weekly news conference.
Experts are working to determine whether current Covid vaccines will work against the new highly-mutated variant, which was discovered by South African scientists last month.
The daily number of new Covid infections surged to 22,391 on Thursday, when nearly 30 percent of tests were positive.
