Until now Covid-19 vaccinations in South Africa have only taken place in the context of clinical trials and the Sisonke implementation study. That will change on Monday (17 May) when the country’s mass vaccination programme kicks off. It will also see the start of phase 2 of the vaccine rollout plan, as adults over the age of 60 become eligible for vaccination.
If things go according to plan, the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country should increase in the coming weeks to well over 100,000 per day. In the Sisonke study, it has mostly been in the region of 10,000 a day, although numbers have increased substantially in the last few days as the study neared its 15 May end date.
Until now Covid-19 vaccinations in South Africa have only taken place in
the context of clinical trials and the Sisonke implementation study. That will
change on Monday (17 May) when the country’s mass vaccination programme kicks
off. It will also see the start of phase 2 of the vaccine rollout plan, as adults
over the age of 60 become eligible for vaccination.
If things go according to plan, the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses
administered in the country should increase in the coming weeks to well over
100 000 per day. In the Sisonke study it has mostly been in the region of
10 000 a day, although numbers have increased substantially in the last
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The South African National Defence Union (Sandu) has demanded that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) register military healthcare workers in the Sisonke Vaccination Programme. If not done by Monday 8 March, the trade union is prepared to take the matter to court. It has appealed to the Ministry of Defence and Military Veterans to intervene urgently.
The union has been “inundated” with calls by military healthcare workers over the apparent failure of the SANDF surgeon-general, Lieutenant-General Zola Dabula, to register them with the vaccination programme.
The programme launched on 17 February and 70,527 healthcare workers in the public and private sector had been vaccinated by 4 March.
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