President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the mooted vaccine certificates will be rolled out by the Department of Health as government also made its final push, with a new campaign to get over 16 million more vaccine jabs by December.
“The Department of Health should be rolling out a vaccination certificate which will provide a secure and a verifiable proof of vaccination certificate which can be used to facilitate travel to access establishments and gatherings and other forms of activity that require proof of vaccination,” he said.“This will also go along way towards getting a number of international travel restrictions both from and into our country,” he said.
“However we should remember that even if we are vaccinated we need to continue to adhere to the basic precautions to limit the spread of the virus from one person to another,” said Ramaphosa. He said the UK travel ban was affecting South Africa as the UK accounted for the most international tourists into the country.
“I had a telephone conversation with the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss this matter.
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