Vaccinations lag while children drop out of school and millions go hungry: survey

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More than a million extra vaccine doses could have been administered between May and June if vaccination sites had been open at weekends, according to the latest Nids-Cram report.

Some 750,000 children had dropped out of school by May, up from 230,000 before the pandemic, largely due to rotational school timetables.However, there had been an encouraging recovery to almost pre-pandemic levels in the number of children attending early childhood development programmes, according to data gathered in the final wave of the study.

Women had also not benefited from either the Unemployment Insurance Fund temporary employer/employee relief scheme or the Covid-19 social relief of distress grants at the same rates as men, despite being worse affected by unemployment.“Even though women accounted for the majority of the unemployed ...

Just one in three shack residents said someone in their household received the R350 SRD grant in April/May 2021.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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No reason why govt can’t pay for food for our starving and for weekend rollout of vaccines. The fake “economists” who keep telling us the govt “can’t afford it” or “doesn’t have money” are responsible for a crime against humanity. Fact: Our state issues R and always scan spend R

What isn't covered is the inequitable access to vaccines even at public sites with a greater percentage of privileged groups accessing vaccines.We need to do better at getting the vaccines tothe 80% NicSpaull NIDS_CRAM

Abramjee Health department didn't have money to pay for overtime because ramaphosa let his friends loot the money and the balance was stolen my mkize n his chomies, the status of this country, rotten from the top to the bottom. That's all they good for.

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