Overview
- Government confirms the first one million high‑potency doses have arrived at OR Tambo and are being distributed nationwide.
- Provinces received: KwaZulu‑Natal 200,000; Free State 200,000; Eastern Cape 150,000; Mpumalanga 100,000; North West 100,000; Limpopo 100,000; Gauteng 70,000; Northern Cape 50,000; Western Cape 30,000.
- Additional consignments will lift totals to over five million doses by the end of March, with supplies from Biogénesis Bagó in Argentina and further batches from BVI (Botswana) and Dollvet (Turkey).
- The rollout launches a 10‑year eradication programme seeking internationally recognised FMD‑free‑with‑vaccination status to reopen export markets.
- Authorities centralise distribution through Provincial State Veterinary Services and authorised private veterinarians, warn against bogus vaccine registration schemes, enforce quarantine and movement controls as outbreaks are reported in all provinces, open a toll‑free support line on Wednesday, and schedule a ministerial visit to Mooi River on 27 February.