Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. Picture: GCIS.
South Africa’s frontline healthcare workers will be the first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. And they will not have to wait long.
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday that the first batch of one million AstraZeneca vaccine vials would arrive in the country in January. The second batch of 500,000 would come in February.
The good news was confirmed to the Department of Health this week by the Serum Institute of India, the main vaccine producer for AstraZeneca globally.
Since March last year, frontline healthcare workers fighting Covid-19 have hardly had any time to rest, and the resurgence of infections had taken place before they could take a break.