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When George Sibotshiwe collaborated with a few other investors to start parcel delivery company Sendr in 2015, he was seeking a solution to a problem of a middle class that seemed to have everything, except time.
The South African company rode on the working population’s lack of time to move about and pick, or drop, parcels.
“All of a sudden, people could shift their focus from picking and dropping of parcels and concentrate on other things. We had them covered on that front,” Mr Sibotshiwe said in an interview with Econet last week.
People find themselves required to do more each day and multitasking is likely to lead to one not accomplishing important tasks, most often because time is not enough to do everything.
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The Africa Vaccine Acquisition TaskTeam [AVATT], set up by the African Union to acquire additional vaccine doses so that Africa can attain a target immunization of 60%, is pleased to advise that it has received an offer of 300 million Sputnik V vaccines from the Russian Federation. This includes a financing package for any member states wishing to secure this vaccine.
Meanwhile, AVATT advises that the 270 million doses previously secured from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnsons were all taken up by the first allocation phase deadline through the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP). With these additional 300 million Sputnik V vaccines, AMSP accelerates online COVID-19 vaccines pre-orders for the 55 African Union member states.