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International guidance recommends that the vaccine go to those ‘most vulnerable’ first
Here’s why trying to decide who’s first in line to receive the jab in South Africa isn’t a straightforward decision
South Africa’s participation in the vaccine procurement mechanism, COVAX, is finally confirmed - but the details of a vaccine rollout plan for the country are still lacking.
Such a strategy will, among other things, guide us as to who will receive Covid-19 jabs first.
As an upper middle-income country, we will have COVAX’s help to secure vaccine doses from pooled supplies, but South Africa would have to finance the actual purchases itself.