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Mining Weekly reports that the parliamentary portfolio committee on mineral resources and energy has welcomed the vaccination of more than 120,000 mineworkers, or about 20% of the sector’s employees, against Covid-19.
Collectively, the sector employs about 452,000 workers. On Wednesday, the committee was briefed by the Minerals Council SA (MCSA) on statistics relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, the management of Covid-19 and the vaccination process in the mining sector. The committee welcomed a commitment from the MCSA (previously known as the Chamber of Mines) to reach a vaccination target of 80% by the end of September. It also welcomed the council’s commitment to make available its members’ unused health centres as quarantine facilities. Noting the challenge of vaccination apathy and misinformation, the committee encouraged the MCSA to accelerate the vaccination of mineworkers in order to move to the second phase of vaccinating mining communities and those living in labour-sending towns. The committee also called on government to intensify communication about the importance of vaccination and address the myths around the so-called “vaccine passport”.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard at Mining Weekly
- Read too, Numbers of mineworkers who’ve had Covid-19 jab encouraging, at SowetanLive
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