“Our concern as a province is the number of infections which have increased over the past few weeks and this of course this indicates that we have deploy intense measures in addition to an increased testing to improve our track in tracing the infections,” he said.
“We will be opening a minimum of 30 vaccination sites across the province, especially when the Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives. For now we are only opening Kimberly for the start of phase 2,” he said adding that “it was all systems go to start the phase two of the vaccination programme.” Northern Cape has trained 220 vaccinators of which 77 are in the Frances Baard District Municipality.
In the meantime, Harmony Home will also be used vaccinate the remaining registered health care workers. “The strategy has also been to ensure that the over 60s are not left behind when coming to register on the Electronic Vaccination Data System so that we also assist our agents, this in the main has assist the province with vaccine hesitancy and correct the misinformation about the vaccines,” he said.
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