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The Department of Employment and Labour through the Compensation Fund (CF), in partnership with mutual assurance companies Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA) and Federated Employer’s Mutual Assurance (FEMA), have partnered to contribute R1,35 billion to fund Covid-19 vaccines for uninsured workers who do not have medical aid cover.
The funding will contribute towards vaccinations under phase 2 of the roll-out for an estimated 3 million workers, which is a significant contribution to the government’s plan to inoculate about 75% of the population to reach the 67% herd immunity target.
“The initiative forms part of the ongoing collaboration between the public and private sectors to plug the vaccine rollout’s financial gaps programme as well as proactively ensuring that a significant part of workers gets inoculated instead of dealing with resultant claims,” the department said in a statement.