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Help over-60s without connectivity register for jabs, urges Cape premier It will take six minutes of your time, pleads premier Alan Winde, as province braces for third wave 20 May 2021 - 13:26 By Tanya Farber
Some people over the age of 60 are slipping through the vaccine net because they’re not digitally connected.
This is according to Western Cape premier Alan Winde, who has called on others, in his weekly Covid-19 digicon, to give up six minutes of their time to help someone else register.
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Requisite changes have now been made on the CoWIN digital portal, making online or on-site appointments for Covishield vaccine not possible if the period after first dose for a beneficiary is less.
Meanwhile, in the Western Cape, health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo on Sunday said the province had vaccinated more than 93,000 health workers in both the private and public sector. The remaining medics would be vaccinated this week.
Mbombo said their plan was to focus on vaccinating the elderly in the metros this week and then shift to the rural areas next week.
Currently, the province had 274 vaccination sites, with 270 located in the metros and four being in the rural areas.
The province had trained more than 3,000 vaccinators while about 5,000 had volunteered,
“In regards to the registration, out of the 720,000-plus older people that are in the Western Cape, about 226,000 have registered. That makes it about 30% of the population,” she said.
Every other nation in the world has centrally planned and funded Covid immunisation. India alone favours a diametrically opposite model, especially incongruent with its demography and economy, and already showing signs of strain. We must rethink our strategy before the third wave goes viral.