Category Archives: 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 here

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 will get two jabs four weeks apart. Biovac, a Cape Town based bio-pharmaceutical company,&nbspREAD MORE >

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 Scientific Officer, Paul Stoffels, confirmed late on Tuesday. Vaccines go through several different stages from&nbspREAD MORE >

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 childhood diseases – diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza B and poliomyelitis. “Biovac is extremely&nbspREAD MORE >