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Covid-19: Staff at George Mukhari Academic Hospital join thousands of vaccinated healthcare workers

Dr Joe Phaahla, Deputy Minister of Health, gets ready to be vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine at George Mukhari Hospital. (Credit: Marcia Zali) Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital is one of four new Covid-19 vaccination sites in Gauteng, and began administering the jab to staff on Wednesday. Healthcare workers at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, north of Pretoria, are now among the thousands of frontline workers vaccinated against Covid-19. Nearly 18,000 healthcare workers across Gauteng have received the Johnson and Johnson vaccine since the vaccination drive kicked off on 17 February. The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, who also received the jab at George Mukhari Hospital. As he shared his experience, Phaahla encouraged reluctant healthcare workers and South Africans to get vaccinated.

Gauteng health workers to get Covid-19 vaccines, as Ramaphosa colds rich nations for hoarding

Gauteng health workers to receive Covid-19 vaccines by Monday, but that doesn’t solve South Africa’s vaccines woes The Covid-19 vaccine programme kicked off on 17 February. (Markus Spiske/Unsplash) On 1 February, Gauteng’s healthcare workers will be first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. But, as President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech to world leaders shows, securing vaccines for the rest of the country is ongoing. On  Monday 1 February, health care workers in Gauteng will roll up their sleeves for the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Frontline workers will be first in a vaccine rollout that will eventually reach 10 million people in the province, officials said.

Women and adolescent girls should be first in line for Covid-19 vaccine, says NGO

Covid-19 messaging and vaccine rollout plans must centre women, says one NGO. (Clarke Sanders/Unsplash) What does a feminist approach to the Covid-19 vaccine rollout look like? The head of the Soul City Institute has the answer. The head of the Soul City Institute is calling on the government to prioritise women and adolescent girls in its Covid-19 vaccine rollout plans. Soul City Institute CEO Phinah Kodisang plans to work with other organisations to lobby government to ensure that they properly consider women and girls during the vaccine rollout. A feminist response to the vaccine “A response to Covid-19 needs to have a feminist response,” said Kodisang. “It needs to centre women, it needs to centre adolescent girls and it needs to centre children.”

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