Elderly woman paints a positive picture as she receives vaccine

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'I have to live on to see my family grow — I plan to do that,' said Ethelwyn van Eck, 84, as she received her Covid-19 vaccine on Monday.

“I have changed. That moment in my life made me realise that to survive you must bend your perspective. Now that I’m at an old age home, I relied on my memory of the outside world to paint. And their faces, the beauty, the pride, and gorgeous and colourful clothing stuck to my mind,” she said.Van Eck said she was a teacher and had been painting for 30 years.I plan to do that. I’ve accepted that it was a dangerous disease. I had to be in quarantine, which I knew was for my own good.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday there may be a slow start to the second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination rollout, but the numbers should pick up during the month. The second phase begins this week. There were 87 vaccination sites available nationally, with 83 in the public sector and four in the private sector. The department was hoping to up this number to 200 by the end of the week.

 

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