SouthAfrica aims to have given at least one dose of Covid19 vaccine to 35 million of its 60 million people by Christmas, a senior health official has said..
Johannesburg - South Africa aims to have given at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine to 35 million of its 60 million people by Christmas, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
The country is the worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic on the African continent in terms of recorded infections and deaths, and is experiencing a"third wave" of infections. To date, the country has administered around 5.8 million doses of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson and two-dose Pfizer vaccines.
He said the loss of vaccine doses during looting and arson last week that followed the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma"was not huge but every lost vaccine is a lost opportunity".
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