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If getting the population vaccinated is a bit like climbing a metaphorical mountain, Alfred Ncube and his team play their part by literally wending their way up remote, rough rural roads, hills, dales and peaks, through mud and dirt . in a minibus.
As South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination programme ramps up, with a target to vaccinate 41-million people by the end of March next year, health NGO Right to Care is deploying teams to vaccinate South Africans living in hard-to-reach places in remote parts of the country.
Dr Ntombi Sigwebela, chief of party for vaccinations at health NGO Right to Care, says that “No-one should be left out of the vaccine programme, including people living in far-flung areas. There is an urgency to vaccinate as variants may emerge and spread. We need to achieve herd or population immunity to break the chain of transmission as quickly as possible.”
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Non-profit health organisation Right to Care has set its sights on far-flung areas to ensure rural communities are not left out as the vaccination roll-out moves in earnest, amid the country bracing itself for a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.