by Beverley Houston | Mar 3, 2021 | Biovac
Deputy President David Mabuza recently visited the Biovac Institute’s storage facility, which now has a good storage facility for Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Bongani speaks to Biovac Institute CEO Dr Morena Makhoana. To hear the full interview, click...
by Beverley Houston | Feb 2, 2021 | Biovac
CEO Dr Morena Makhoana reflects on how the company will store and distribute the vaccines. The first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccines arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on Monday afternoon. Frontline healthcare workers are first in line for vaccination and...
by Beverley Houston | Dec 10, 2020 | Biovac
Aspen Pharmacare will not produce Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine itself in South Africa. Instead, Aspen will be one of six sites globally responsible for putting the vaccine into vials and packing the jabs for distribution, Johnson & Johnson Chief...
by Beverley Houston | Nov 21, 2020 | Biovac
Biovac, South Africa’s state vaccine company, has started manufacturing a pediatric vaccine under license from Sanofi Pasteur, marking the first time an inoculation has been made in the country since the mid-1990s. The Hexaxim vaccine protects against six leading...