SA medical schemes divided on vaccine
South Africa is expecting its first 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to land today and will start immunising health workers from mid-February. Photo Nampa/AFP
Emma Rumney and Alexander Winning - Days before coronavirus vaccinations start in South Africa, medical schemes have still not agreed how and to what extent they will contribute to the cost of inoculations for people without insurance cover, industry executives told Reuters.
South Africa is expecting its first 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to land today and will start immunising health workers from mid-February. The country has been the hardest-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic on the continent, with more than 1.4 million cases and over 43 000 deaths to date.
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Often considered the last of its kind in South Africa, Musicaâs fall has been coming.
By Michael Brown
1 Feb 2021 16:09
The shelves are not as packed as they used to be. This is the word of one Musica employee who wishes to remain anonymous. She remembered how this Durban branch used to pack numerous CDs and DVDs onto the shelves around Christmas time.
âLast Christmas was definitely quieter than other years,â she admitted.
Musica, which was bought by Clicks in 1992, has âbeen operating in a declining market for several yearsâ the group said on Thursday.
According to the annual results released in August 2020, the retail entertainment store has seen a 30.2% decline in turnover from 2019âs figures.
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Musica missed the digital boat. (Photo: Getty Images)
Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, the now infamous Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The crew had received six warnings of sea ice during the day but, by the time the lookouts spotted the giant mountain of ice, it was too late. The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage and the lives of more than 1 500 people were lost.
On Thursday 28 January 2021 the Clicks Group announced that it would close its Musica entertainment business. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
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Tender for vaccine storage in SA to be issued by February 5 Health department director-general Sandile Buthelezi says the tender will be open to all eligible companies 28 January 2021 - 17:42 Nqobile Dludla Picture: DADO RUVIC/REUTERS
The health ministry will issue a tender on February 5 to store and distribute Covid-19 vaccines, it said on Thursday, in an effort to speed up a vaccine rollout that opposition leaders and scientists have said is too slow.
The qualifying bidders will be involved in phases 2 and 3 three of the country’s vaccine programme, director-general Sandile Buthelezi told Reuters.
Health experts, scientists and political rivals have accused the government of taking too long to procure and plan the distribution of vaccines against the new coronavirus a charge it rejects.