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Here’s why trying to decide who’s first in line to receive the jab in South Africa isn’t a straightforward decision
South Africa’s participation in the vaccine procurement mechanism, COVAX, is finally confirmed - but the details of a vaccine rollout plan for the country are still lacking.
Such a strategy will, among other things, guide us as to who will receive Covid-19 jabs first.
As an upper middle-income country, we will have COVAX’s help to secure vaccine doses from pooled supplies, but South Africa would have to finance the actual purchases itself.
South Africa’s participation in the vaccine procurement mechanism, COVAX, is finally confirmed – but the details of a vaccine rollout plan for the country are still lacking. Such a strategy will, among other things, guide us as to who will receive Covid-19 jabs first.
As an upper middle-income country, we will have COVAX’s help to secure vaccine doses from pooled supplies, but South Africa would have to finance the actual purchases itself. The Solidarity Fund – a private fund set up in South Africa to raise money from the private sector and individuals, to supplement funding for Covid-19-related initiatives – has agreed to make an initial payment of R327-million ($22-million) to COVAX to secure vaccines for about 10% of our population.