{"id":117222,"date":"2021-04-04T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117222"},"modified":"2021-04-04T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:12:37","slug":"covid-19-south-africa-concludes-sale-of-astrazeneca-shots-to-african-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117222","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: South Africa concludes sale of AstraZeneca shots to African Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/South-Africa-concludes-sale-of-AstraZeneca-shots-to-African-Union-1223671?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/445\/44563661.295.jpg\" alt=\"The vaccines were sold to 18 member states including Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and Zimbabwe\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The vaccines were sold to 18 member states including Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and Zimbabwe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South Africa concluded the sale of 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford to the African Union after they were found to have little impact on mild infections caused by a variant of the virus first identified in the country last year.<br><br>The vaccines were sold to 18 member states including Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and Zimbabwe, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a statement.<br><br>The first batch of doses has been dispatched from South Africa and will be distributed via the continental body, he said.<br><br>South Africa has pivoted to using shots developed by Johnson &amp; Johnson for its initial inoculations, with more than 380,000 health-care workers having registered to receive them.<br><br>The government aims to vaccinate about two-thirds of the population of 60 million people to achieve herd immunity. The first vaccines will be issued as part of a study, allowing normal regulatory approvals to be bypassed. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vaccines were sold to 18 member states including Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and Zimbabwe PRETORIA, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South Africa concluded the sale of 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford to the African Union after they were found to have little impact on mild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}