South Africa will on Monday receive one million Covid-19 vaccine doses from India, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
The AstraZeneca doses would undergo technical processes on arrival, including quality assurance, he said.
Zweli Mkhize added that the processes would take a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days to complete, upon which they will be ready to distribute the vaccines to all provinces.
An additional 500,000 doses are expected in February and a further 20 million doses procured for June.
South Africa is the country worst-hit by the coronavirus pandemic in Africa. It is battling a highly infectious new mutation of the virus that has led to a surge in new infections.
