TimesLIVE reports that the Cabinet has approved the extension of the national state of disaster until 15 March.  Next month will be one year since the national state of disaster was first implemented in SA.  

In a statement on Wednesday, the Presidency said the government had prioritised the country’s vaccination programme and it reassured South Africans that the programme remained on track.  Health Minister Zweli Mkhize recently advised that the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine had proved effective against the new variant of the Covid-19 virus and the necessary approval processes for its use in SA were under way.  The Presidency urged South Africans to use President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address (Sona) on Thursday as a “rallying point to turn around our economy, end gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) and tackle the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment”.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Iavan Pijoos at TimesLIVE

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