President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans to get vaccinated as scientists try to understand the new Covid-19 variant.
President Cyril Ramaphosa updated the country on SA's response to Covid-19 on Sunday night. File imageNo new Covid-19 restrictions will be imposed but the government has set up a task team to explore the possibility of mandatory vaccines, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.
“The task team will report to the interministerial committee on vaccination chaired by the deputy president, which will make recommendations to cabinet on a fair and sustainable approach to vaccine mandates.” The country will remain on coronavirus alert level 1 for now. “In taking the decision not to impose further restrictions at this stage, we considered the fact that when we encountered previous waves of infection, vaccines were not widely available and far fewer people were vaccinated.”
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