EDITORIAL: ANC loonies spread vaccine distrust
If Ramaphosa wants to show these rules aren’t just empty words that don’t apply to the elite, comrades in his own party, should be feeling the sting for fuelling insane conspiracies
14 January 2021 - 05:00
On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa belatedly provided a skeleton explanation of SA’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, but it was difficult to get too excited given the glaring holes in the plan.
For example, Ramaphosa revealed that through the Covax initiative, SA will get vaccines for about 6-million people — yet he reported that scientists say we need to vaccinate 40-million people (67% of the population) to reach herd immunity...
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