Covid - Vaccine Drive Is Running Out of Steam and People Are Dying GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica Covid19 Coronavirus
Although deaths from Covid in South Africa are much lower than in 2020 and 2021 there are still a lot of deaths.
up to 240,000 vaccine doses a day. But this number has dropped to just over 5,000 a day. Less than half of these are first doses and a third are booster shots., which it wanted to achieve by the end of 2021. Half of the adult population in South Africa is currently vaccinated. Among adults 60 years or older, nearly 73% have been fully vaccinated.
GroundUp visited a Clicks store in Cape Town where, three months ago, vaccines were still being administered. But they no longer do Covid vaccines.has a list of"active vaccination sites", many of which are no longer active, and the"Find My Jab" page has completely different information. More than 85% of Covid infections in the country are from the Omicron BA.5 variant, which is widespread and infectious but usually causes very mild illness.
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.
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