Co lead investigator on the local leg of A J and J Global trial, Glenda Gray said the vaccines would be rolled out to medics wants South Africa secures the necessary authorization permits from the domestic regulator.

There's no use pouring vaccines into the country and we are unable to deploy them.

And so we will receive 80,000 verses every 7 to 14 days on based on ability, Thio Thio.

Roll them up, you know we will then redeploy them.

J and J's vaccine has already been tested in the global Phase three trial involving more than 40,000 participants, including over 6000 in South Africa.

Graze comments come days after the government pause the rollout of one million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine and switched to the J and J shot to start protecting its health workers.

Yeah, that decision was based on a small clinical trial that showed the AstraZeneca jab provided minimal protection against mild to moderate illness from the more contagious virus variant that is now dominant in South Africa.

The government said on Wednesday it was considering selling or swapping AstraZeneca shots it had ordered.