South Africans’ willingness to have a Covid-19 vaccine increased from 71% in February-March to 76% in April-May, according to Nids-Cram data released on Thursday.
The interviewers conducted their work in all 11 official languages, and for the vaccine chapter they relied on a scale that showed how strongly accepting or not South Africans are of the jab.
“This provides encouragement for interventions aiming to improve vaccine intentions,” they said, adding that it shows “vaccine acceptance may be becoming a social norm”.
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