Vaccine acceptance has risen to 72%, but inequality remains the biggest stumbling block for poor people’s access to the jab
More than 191 000 people were vaccinated on Thursday the daily target for next week is 250 00, says the health department
One of Africa’s top tourist attractions has a strategy to encourage travellers to return: mass vaccination.
After many delays, this coming week’s first vaccine recipients can only expect to have immunity by 4 June at the earliest.
Eighty thousand Johnson & Johnson jabs will arrive in South Africa on Tuesday and be taken to 16 sites where healthcare workers will be vaccinated
DA leader John Steenhuisen has called for Ramaphosa to throw out what he termed an ‘outdated 20th century ideology of state control’
The department of health and experts briefed the media on Sunday, after a study showed the vaccine is not highly effective against the new variant
SA’s one-million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will expire by early April — unless India’s Serum Institute can safely extend their use-by date.
Democratic Alliance drags the government to court, demanding a Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan.
The first batch of vaccines is almost here, but a top government adviser says achieving herd immunity by the end of the year is ‘unrealistic’
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Inmates comprise a vulnerable group in society and they are meant to receive Covid-19 vaccines earlier than the general population. This has sparked debate locally and globally