UPDATE | Government response to third wave of Covid-19 pandemic

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Due to a lacklustre response to stricter measures intended to curb the spread of Covid-19, coupled with rising numbers of hospital admissions in Gauteng, the government has been forced to rope in the military.

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Crisp said the 300,000 doses would not be enough to cover the entire sector but the next consignment of vaccines, from a similar source in the US with a short expiry date, was expected to arrive next week.

Speaking about the vaccination of workers, Dr Barry Kistnasamy said phase 2 aimed to vaccinate the general population and then the rest of the workforce .The country has 15 million workers in the formal economy and seven million in the informal economy. There is a plan in place to reimburse people who use their medical aid funds for vaccination, and the health department is investigating why there is hesitancy to be vaccinated among workers.The government’s online registration portal, the electronic vaccine data system , has been plagued by delays but the department said it was working on troubleshooting the system.

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