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South Africa to begin Covid-19 vaccination in February – Health Minister

January 4, 2021
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South Africa’s health minister has announced that the country which has been hard hit by a second wave of coronavirus cases hopes to obtain its first vaccine doses next month.

In recent weeks the South African government has come in for criticism, particularly from health experts, over the delay in starting a programme of inoculation against Covid-19.

“We are targeting February,” Dr Zweli Mkhize told a news conference, while cautioning that before that can happen negotiations must be concluded with vaccine makers including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, as well as with Russian and Chinese laboratories.

To finance its vaccine programme, the administration plans to seek help from the private sector as well as from the country’s main health insurers.

South Africa is also participating in Covax, the World Health Organisation’s mechanism for global vaccine distribution.

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Last week the government paid a deposit of 15.8 million euros to enter Covax, the mechanism for the equitable distribution of vaccines established by the UN World Health Organisation.

But South Africa, by far the worst-hit country in the African continent, does not expect to receive the first vaccine doses under that programme until the second quarter of the year.

“It is clear that the second wave that we are going through is affecting us to levels which are even higher than in the earlier stage,” the minister said.

“The only way to deal with the Covid-19 not only in South Africa but throughout the world is the provision of the immunity through the vaccination,” Mkhize added,

The country’s first main goal is to vaccinate 67 percent of its population of 59 million people, in order to achieve sufficient collective immunity to staunch the spread of the virus.

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On Thursday South Africa registered a record 18,000 new cases in 24 hours.

It is also the first African nation to top 1 million registered Covid-19 cases.

Tags: Covid-19 Vaccination CampaignPresident Cyril RamaphosaSouth AfricaWorld Health organisation
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