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Nursing unions are not convinced provincial health departments are ready for Monday s vaccine rollout.
People aged 60 and above are set to receive the Covid-19 vaccination from next week.
People will receive the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Nursing unions have raised concerns about the readiness of provinces to rollout Covid-19 vaccinations next week.
On Monday, the country will start vaccinating people aged 60 and above, using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Eleanor Roberts, Western Cape chair of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa, said the long queues this week, as healthcare workers tried to get vaccinated, were worrying.
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