The AU’s special envoy Strive Masiyiwa says the arrangement, whereby J & J was shipping vaccines from South Africa to Europe, has been suspended. J & J had shipped about 20-million doses to Europe and the halting of the shipments was partly due to interventions by President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine doses packaged at the Aspen plant in the Eastern Cape will stay in Africa, and those doses already shipped to Europe, will be returned.
