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BL Premium reports that SA’s Covid-19 vaccination programme took a leap forward last week as the public sector ramped up and the private sector joined the drive.
Business for SA said on Friday that both sectors intended to ramp up “aggressively” over the next month and were aiming to reach 192,500 vaccinations a day by the end of May. B4SA’s Martin Kingston advised that sufficient supplies of vaccine had been secured to vaccinate the entire adult population. In the case of Pfizer, these were coming into the country at a rate of 325,000 a week, soon to be increased to 640,000. In the case of J&J, 1.1-million jabs had already been produced and were waiting at the Aspen manufacturing facility. Another one-million was scheduled for the end of the month, with one-million a month arriving thereafter. Over the past week, 155 public vaccination sites and 22 private sector sites were in operation. By June, it was hoped that a steady stream of 192,000 a day could be achieved. However, this is still short of the 200,000 to 300,000 target a day needed if all SA adults are to be vaccinated by the end of 2021. The biggest hurdle to the vaccine programme at the moment is the low number of registrations of people over the age of 60 on the electronic database. Of a population of 5.4-million, only 1.6-million have registered.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Carol Paton at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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