News24 reports that early childhood development (ECD) teachers, Sassa officials and other social development department staff will receive Covid-19 vaccines from Monday.

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has advised the social development sector will be launching its national vaccine rollout plan from Monday in the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, North West and Northern Cape. The vaccination rollout in the Western Cape will start on Thursday and in Limpopo on Friday. Just over 240,000 people are expected to receive their jabs during the rollout. Included in the plan are ECD practitioners and staff working in the ECD environment. Also eligible are social service professionals, including all social workers, auxiliary social workers and student social workers who are currently doing fieldwork, child and youth care workers, child and youth care auxiliary workers and all social service professionals in the public, private or NGO sectors. The rollout will also include community development practitioners and frontline staff working in the social development department, including at all social development facilities, Sassa, the National Development Agency, and the SA Council for Social Service Professions.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nicole McCain at News24

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