Travel industry needs private sector muscle to avoid devastation
If business helps to speed up inoculation, SA could open up as soon as October rather than mid-2022
20 May 2021 - 16:53
The reopening of international travel hinges largely on SA successfully ramping up its vaccination programme and the private sector standing by to help.
Much has been written about the glacial pace at which our vaccine rollout appears to be progressing. The slower the rollout, the longer the recovery of our travel sector, and its deep supply chain, which has already haemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of jobs with many more at risk if we don’t push the reset button, throw the rule book out the window and make the Herculean effort to get those shots into arms...
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