GENEVA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - South Africa will roll out the
AstraZeneca vaccine in a "stepped manner" to assess its
effectiveness in preventing severe illness, Professor Salim
Abdool Karim, the co-chair of South Africa’s Ministerial
Advisory Committee on COVID-19, said on Monday.
Karim said South Africa would pause the rollout while
determining how to roll it out, and could vaccinate 100,000
people with the shot to see how well it worked on preventing
hospitalisations and deaths.
(Reporting by John Revill, Stephanie Nebehay, Emma Farge and
Peter Graff; Editing by Alison Williams)
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