Six women under age 50 developed rare blood clots in the United States among more than 6 million people given the J&J shot so far. Based on their advice, we have determined to voluntarily suspend our rollout until the causal relationship between the development of clots and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is sufficiently interrogated," Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told reporters. He said there had not been reports of such clots in South Africa after almost 290,000 vaccinations. In South Africa, the J&J vaccine has been given to health workers in a research study that is further testing it in the field. South Africa is the worst-hit country on the African continent in terms of recorded coronavirus infections and deaths.

Source: bd News24 April 13, 2021 17:37 UTC