For the past week or two, I have encountered a blizzard of rumours about wealthy South Africans apparently gaming the system to swindle early access to Covid vaccines for themselves.
One such story is that a group of well-to-do Capetonians got their doctor to falsely claim they’re care workers so they could qualify for the vaccines set aside for health-care workers under the Sisonke programme. (And this was before vaccines opened to those aged over 60 this week.)..
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