EDITORIAL: Vaccine laggard SA may pay a heavy price for lack of planning
The inoculation delay could leave many dangerously exposed to the next wave of Covid-19 infections
19 March 2021 - 05:10
A month after the government began dispensing Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) coronavirus shots to health-care workers, a mere 0.3% of SA’s population has been vaccinated.
SA is lagging behind countries such as Ghana, Panama and Uruguay and, at just 168,413 vaccines administered so far, it has managed less than half the number the UK typically does in a single day. According to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/), the US administered an average 2.47-million doses a day in the week through March 17...
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