1. Jabs all in a row
Health minister Zweli Mkhize assured the Western Cape it needn’t buy its own Covid shots as the national government had secured enough for all provinces to achieve population immunity, reports The Sowetan. He advised it to focus instead on the logistics of inoculation. Mkhize is visiting all the provinces to inspect their readiness for the vaccine rollout, due to start on May 17. If the manufacturers deliver, he said, "we will be able to vaccinate 46.2-million South Africans by the end of March 2022", excluding 500,000 health workers under the Sisonke Protocol. Also expected are 1.2-million doses from Covax this quarter. He said 343,420 people had signed up for the jab by Monday since registration for over-60s opened last Friday...
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