This is according to the ANC national executive committee lekgotla which ended its weekend-long meeting on Sunday.
He said it had been clear that SA was not prepared to deal with the pandemic that’s wreaking havoc in the country. “As the world confronts the possibility of future pandemics, we need to be drawing on that experience that we already have and investing in South Africa’s own vaccine development and production industry — and we need to do so as part of a broader African initiative.”
Ramaphosa also said the lekgotla had “placed the defeat of Covid-19 as our overriding and most pressing responsibility for 2021, which requires both an intensive vaccination programme alongside the intensification of prevention measures, increased screening and testing, and the further strengthening of our health system.”
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