Hanover Park dental couple feel relief at receiving Covid-19 vaccine
By Staff Reporter
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Cape Town - A Hanover Park dental couple expressed a great sense of relief after they received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at Tygerberg Hospital last week.
Mansoor Mohamed and Andrea Mohamed Jacobs, who are general dental practitioners at the Hanover Park Community Day Centre, were vaccinated against Covid-19 on March 1.
Provincial dental services have been limited in the metro since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with only emergency dental care rendered.
Dental staff were particularly at high risk due to working in close proximity to patients’ mouths, where there was a risk of becoming infected through coughing and sneezing and via droplets in the air. Although dental staff were provided with personal protective equipment, the risk remained.