Researchers are seeing “tremendous benefits” in the group of healthcare workers who have received the Covid-19 vaccine, Professor Barry Schoub said during a
Daily Maverick webinar on Wednesday night.
Schoub, a Wits University Professor Emeritus of Virology; and Professor Koleka Mlisana, an executive manager at the National Health Laboratory Service; discussed the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine to the general population that is scheduled to start on 17 May. Both serve as advisers to the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize.
Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood described them as “two of the people in the hot seats”.
On Wednesday Mkhize told the Health Portfolio Committee in Parliament that about 500,000 (out of five million) people over 60 in South African had registered for the vaccine.
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Eswatini receives 12 000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility
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he Honourable Minister of Health, Senator Lizzie Nkosi receiving the vaccine © WHO
On Saturday 13 March, the Kingdom of Eswatini had become one of the African countries that received the COVID 19 vaccine through the COVAX facility. This is indeed a major milestone in the fight against COVID 19. It is also a major step towards ensuring equitable access to COVID 19 vaccine in the country. This means that thousands of Emaswati will now have access to the life-saving vaccines after being hit hard by the second wave which ravaged the country and the whole region from November 2020 to January 2021 period.