THE government is working on improving the country’s capability to produce coronavirus vaccines, Deputy President David Mabuza said on Tuesday.
Mabuza was visiting the Biovac Institute in Midrand, Gauteng, where the coronavirus vaccines are being kept.
Mabuza’s visit followed a decision by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on COVID-19 Vaccines, chaired by him to visit various sites established for the purposes of vaccines rollout.
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine that we are administering now we store it here, from here we distribute it to the various centres. The cold chain can be broken for some days that won’t alter the quality of the vaccine but it cannot go beyond certain days,” said Mabuza.
“So this is the capability that we have as a country which Cabinet made a decision to improve this capability for us to manufacture our own vaccines.”
Mabuza also told the working media about the process of how the vaccines
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