Although Covid-19 deaths in SA are much lower than in 2020 and 2021, there are still a lot of fatalities. At its peak, SA was vaccinating about 240 000 people daily. It's now down to about 5 000 - and most vaccination sites have closed. | GroundUp_News
Although Covid-19 deaths in SA are much lower than in 2020 and 2021, there are still a lot of fatalities.It's now down to about 5 000 - and most vaccination sites have closed.At the peak of the vaccination drive, South Africa was
The nurse administering the vaccines was treating patients elsewhere in the clinic. The person logging the vaccines on the computer system told GroundUp that, on average, 12 people a day came to the clinic for vaccines. In earlier waves, researchers were able to estimate that 85% to 95% of these excess deaths were due to Covid-19, but the changing nature of the epidemic has made it much harder to estimate how many of this year's excess deaths are due to Covid-19.
Although being infected by, and recovering from the virus, does provide a level of immunity, getting a vaccine still greatly improves one's protection against the virus. To monitor and manage the pandemic, Crisp says the government is continuing with daily testing, gene sequencing and wastewater sampling.
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