SA stumbling from one disaster to the next
Death stalks the beloved country and now a large batch of Covid vaccines has to be destroyed
SA just can’t get a break. After a decade of Jacob Zuma, and just as we were emerging from years of a Gupta-fuelled murk, a pandemic hit.Due to short-sighted penny-pinching, the government then dragged its feet in ordering vaccines. As our leaders bemoan vaccine inequality — a stark and sick reality in our modern world — it is clear that in SA’s case, there is no such excuse. Our government simply did not act soon enough.Then SA was hit by a new variant of the virus, which rendered useless the first lot of vaccines it did manage to secure.The bad news didn’t end there. Health minister Zweli Mkhize was meant to be navigating these choppy waters but was found "vibing" with a dodgy communications contract (handed to his close associates) and placed on special leave.Now, 2-million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines destined for SA have to be destroyed. The US Food & Drug Administration last week ordered that J&J must discard 60-million doses because of contamination at a Baltimor...
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