CORONAVIRUS WEEKLY DIGEST #21: Parliament questions roll-out plan, matrics celebrate success and billions allocated to vaccines for years to come

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CORONAVIRUS WEEKLY DIGEST 21: Parliament questions rollout plan, matrics celebrate success and billions allocated to vaccines for years to come

The 2021 Budget cuts R264,9-million in expenditure over the next three years in order to fund Covid-19 vaccines and mass public employment programmes. In terms of vaccines, R9-billion has been set aside, with R5,85-million available immediately.

Mkhize announced that another batch of 80,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would arrive on Saturday, 27 February, and that most of the “teething problems” in administering the vaccine have been resolved. Read moreOn Thursday, the Department of Health presented a vaccine roll-out and acquisition plan to the National Council of Provinces. The delegates’ main concerns were over why the government is the sole procurer of vaccines and where this left the private sector in the roll-out.

 

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