Doses may need to be destroyed because of a lack of demand from citizens
SA is scaling back its Covid-19 vaccination drive and may have to destroy doses because of a lack of demand from citizens even as the country heads into a fifth wave of infections.
“No-one is arriving” to get shots, Crisp said in an interview on Monday. “The numbers are just terrible.” The country failed to meet its original target of inoculating about two-thirds of adults by the end of 2021, as well as its plan to consistently administer about 300,000 vaccines a day. In the 24 hours to Monday evening, SA processed 49,285 shots.
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