The African Christian Democratic Party and partners are seeking to stop the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines to adolescents. But, given that most pupils attend schools with infrastructure problems and serious overcrowding, vaccines remain critical to keep them safe and prevent outbreaks at schools.
Barring 12- to 17-year-olds from getting Covid-19 vaccines will lead to further interruptions in their schooling and will curtail efforts to limit the spread of the virus, says public interest law group Section27. It has called for the ACDP’s court application to interdict the roll-out of the.
How does South Africa measure the scale of its Covid-19 epidemic? ‘Corpses are the one certainty. From the outset, scientists knew that counting deaths would give us the most accurate information about what is happening with the Covid epidemic in South Africa.’ That’s according to Tom Mou.