Online registration for vaccines to open today Updated
Jacaranda FM
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South Africans 60
years old and above will be able to register on the Electronic Vaccination Data
System (EVDS) self-registration portal from today.
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This is in
preparation for the second phase of the vaccination roll-out expected in
mid-May.
The target for phase
2 is 14 million elder citizens who are at the highest risk of
hospitalisation.
Millions of the
J&J and Pfizer vaccine are expected to land in the country in the coming
weeks to finalize phase 1 for health workers and prepare to kickstart phase
2.
The registration
drive comes amid the decision by the government to pause the rollout of the
Other vaccines have been procured amid J&J pause assures Ramaphosa Updated
Nushera Soodyal
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country will be getting other coronavirus vaccines from elsewhere following the suspension of the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson jabs.
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There are safety concerns after six women in the US who d received the J&J shot developed blood clots afterwards.
One of them has died.
Ramaphosa spoke to reporters this afternoon after a meeting with senior Transnet officials at the Port of Durban.
The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is halted for now and hopefully not for too long because the scientists are going to look at the efficiency of the vaccine.
COVID-19 variant found in over 50 countries, scientists unclear of origin Updated
Nushera Soodyal and Jacaranda FM
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Scientists say they are not sure if the COVID-19 variant first identified in South Africa originated from here.
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UKZN s Professor Tulio de Oliveira has been speaking on the latest scientific results on this strain. It was either found in South Africa through this network and spread very fast. Now it has been found in 48 countries in the world. So it doesn t make sense to call it a South African variant because there are 50 countries where it s circulating.
Govt hoping to vaccinate 1.1 million by end-March, Mkhize tells MPs Updated
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Health Minister
Zweli Mkhize has told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that
government hopes to inoculate 1,1 million people by the end of March.
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Over the next
few weeks South Africa will receive 500 000 doses from Johnson
& Johnson and another 600 000 from Pfizer. It will be
able to get over 1,1 million people vaccinated between now and hopefully the
end of March,” he said.
That process
is going to ensure that all the health workers either get the one dose or the
first dose, which means we will have about two to three months to get to give