President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 8pm on Sunday following the discovery of the new Delta variant in South Africa, the government said on Saturday.
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02 June 2021 - 14:56 All primary school pupils and pupils with special education needs will have to attend school daily from July 26. Stock photo. Image: SAMORN TARAPAN/123rf.com
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga has allayed fears around the full-time return of primary school pupils in grades R to 7 from July 26, saying the department would be guided by the national coronavirus command council and data from the health department.
Motshekga was responding to questions on Tuesday after a presentation from the basic education department on the status of school preparedness for a possible third wave of Covid-19 infections.
“We have a team working with the health department and monitoring infections on a daily basis and that is what guides us . in the decision to say it would be ideal to send younger children back to school,” said the minister.
Zweli Mkhize blames Big Pharma for vaccine delivery delays The health minister says talks have been lengthy and difficult as the manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines sought onerous terms BL PREMIUM
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Health minister Zweli Mkhize has accused coronavirus vaccine manufacturers Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer of making unreasonable demands that have delayed the delivery of shots to SA.
The government faces growing pressure over its failure to begin rolling out vaccines to the general population. Despite having Africa’s biggest recorded Covid-19 caseload, SA lags behind in its vaccination efforts and has so far inoculated only 290,000 health workers with J&J’s vaccine under the Sisonke implementation study.