'It was beyond our control': Ramaphosa defends vaccines delay in heated parly debate

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'We are not the only country that has been shortchanged when it comes to vaccines,' President Cyril Ramaphosa tells MP during Q&A session.

However, he said significant progress had also been made after the procurement of more than 50 million doses expected to be secured before the end of the year.

“The contractual delivery schedules as per the information shared by manufacturers is as follows: In quarter two of 2021, we are scheduled to receive: three million J&J doses, 4.5 million Pfizer doses from our contract with Pfizer, 1.4 million Pfizer doses through the Covax facility. He said the country, “in our estimation”, needed at least R50bn to vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity.

Ramaphosa responded by saying the minister of finance could be invited before parliament again to discuss the financing of the vaccines. He maintained that a well co-ordinated plan was in place.

 

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He is not defending anything. It is a well known fact that the evil west is hoarding vaccines.

Hmm. Let’s put it this way: South Africa isn’t the only country that fcked up and took too long to secure vaccines. That’s more like it hey?

That's cold comfort. It's a defence. 'I'm not alone in loss'. U still don't have what is best/should b having.

We are talking about our country imi your talking about other people aish this guy xem🤔🤔

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