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In switch, South Africa to give health workers J&J vaccine

by Andrew Meldrum
| February 12, 2021 12:03 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa will start vaccinating front-line health workers next week with a shot that is still in testing — an unorthodox strategy announced Wednesday after officials abandoned plans to use another vaccine that a small study suggests is only minimally effective against the variant dominant in the country.

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