{"id":82276,"date":"2021-09-03T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=82276"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:54:52","slug":"eu-to-return-johnson-johnson-vaccines-made-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=82276","title":{"rendered":"EU to return Johnson &#038; Johnson vaccines made in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/johnson.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/johnson-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/johnson-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<section>\n<div class=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>by AFP<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has agreed to send millions of coronavirus vaccine doses made in South Africa back to the continent, an African Union envoy said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-page-ad_wrap desktop\">\n<div id=\"desktop-article-ad-1\" class=\"content-page-ad content-page-ad_desktop center-align-ad\" data-google-query-id=\"CNrM7f354vICFcT0KAUdjTUATg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1010816\/Z-DN-728x90-Article-1_0__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1010816\/Z-DN-728x90-Article-1_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/a7c14f599c4dbd2b5edba35cd18c27b4.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-38\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Aspen Pharmacare, which produces the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine under a contract with the US pharma giant, will also stop sending doses to Europe,\u00a0Strive Masiyiwa told reporters at an online briefing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>The announcement came with Africa struggling to immunise its people against Covid-19, partly because of a lack of supply and widespread vaccine hesitancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>&#8220;All the vaccines produced at Aspen will stay in Africa and be distributed to Africa,&#8221; the African Union&#8217;s special Covid envoy said, adding that Aspen&#8217;s arrangement to export the doses to Europe had been &#8220;suspended&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>&#8220;This issue has been corrected and corrected in a very positive way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>The announcement followed a meeting in Berlin between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, he said, adding that the first supplies were expected this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>&#8220;In addition the Europeans committed to give us 200 million doses before the end of December,&#8221; Masiyiwa said at the briefing by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>At the same news conference, Africa CDC director John Nkengasong said that the number of people who have been fully immunised against coronavirus on the continent was about 2.93 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Also on Thursday, the World Health Organisation warned that most African countries were likely to miss the &#8220;crucial&#8221; goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10 percent of their populations against Covid-19 by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/africa\/eu-to-return-johnson-johnson-vaccines-made-in-africa-3536136\">https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/africa\/eu-to-return-johnson-johnson-vaccines-made-in-africa-3536136<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}