Covid-19 Business Watch
WATCH: A snail’s pace of a vaccination programme
Michael Avery talks to a panel about the slow pace of SA's Covid-19 vaccine rollout
30 March 2021 - 15:15
The headline on Reuters the other day read: “SA plans to vaccinate 200,000 people per day from ‘around May’.”
“Around May” is, again, simply too late and too vague to be of any use really. Health minister Zweli Mkhize’s advisers have recommended the reintroduction of tighter restrictions on alcohol sales and public gatherings to try to avoid a devastating new Covid-19 wave that could see hospital admissions up to a quarter higher than the previous surge. ..
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