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The Citizen reports that acting Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane on Friday announced another big step forward in SA’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout programme with the implementation of weekend vaccinations.
The health ministry had been in talks with the National Treasury to secure funding in order for additional staff, including medical and nursing students, to assist with weekend vaccinations across all provinces. Since funding has now been secured, Kubayi-Ngubane said weekend vaccinations would roll out from August. “The matter [of] funding of the vaccination programme was clarified. To this end, we will be starting our work to ensure the availability of human capital to vaccinate over weekends as well. Our target for this is 1 August 2021 and my appeal is that we continue working together with the provinces to achieve this target,” she said. According to the National Income Dynamics Coronavirus Rapid Mobile (NIDS-CRAM) survey released on Thursday, the lack of weekend vaccinations has been a major roadblock in SA’s vaccine rollout programme. Despite SA trudging through a vaccine quagmire, Dr Nicholas Crisp from the National Health Insurance (NHI) on Friday confirmed that the country was now in its strongest position yet for vaccinations. He confirmed that there were 3.6 million vaccine doses ready for use in SA as of Thursday, comprising both the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer doses. The country has about 18 days of vaccines in stock, which is the strongest position it has been in to date. With citizens over the age of 50 are now receiving their jabs, Kubayi-Ngubane said individuals between the ages of 35 and 49 could start registering on 15 July, with their rollout set for 1 August.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Cheryl Kahla at The Citizen
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