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29 March 2021: The mass rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations in South Africa is scheduled to begin on 17 May. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Die Burger/ Lulama Zenzile)
On 17 May, South Africa’s mass Covid-19 vaccination programme is expected to finally kick off. This will start a long race against the clock in which every day and every vaccination matters. Delays or pauses of even just a few days are likely to have serious consequences in terms of infections and deaths.
The fact that, unlike many other countries, our mass vaccination programme has not yet started, has already left us much more vulnerable to a potential third wave than we should be. To use a cricketing analogy, for the past 10 overs we’ve been batting at around two runs an over and the required run rate is now well over 10 an over for the remaining 40 (obviously the actual numbers are even starker than suggested here).
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For the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa, the halls of the country’s hospitals were filled with hope again as health workers welcomed the roll-out of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and lined up to get their jab.
Health workers were feeling a mixture of hope and reticence, psychiatrist Dr Zukiswa Zingela said on Friday.
Zingela started Team Sisonke during the pandemic, a project to support the mental health of healthcare workers while they were battling two waves of the pandemic.
The protocol for the roll-out of the vaccine is also called Sisonke, meaning “we are in this together”.