Experts urge state to share vaccine plan with private sector
Pharmacy, mining and retail sectors are all ready and able to help, but the government is keeping everyone in the dark about SA’s vaccine rollout
20 January 2021 - 12:35
SA health-care experts are urging the government to share a detailed plan for administering Covid-19 vaccines with private-sector partners that are offering their help, warning infrastructure bottlenecks will otherwise delay the rollout.
With about 1.34-million total cases and 37,449 deaths as of Monday, SA is by far the African nation hardest hit by the pandemic and is grappling with a new wave of infections driven by a variant of the virus first identified in the country...
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