Getting the Covid-19 vaccination is a patriotic duty to safeguard the health of the nation, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday when he announced SA has passed the 7.5-million mark for the number of administered jabs.
“At the present rate, we are vaccinating on average 220,000 people a day. In the coming weeks, this rate will increase significantly due to the arrival of more vaccine doses,” he said in his weekly newsletter.
Over the past weekend, a donation of 5.66-million Pfizer vaccines [two-dose jabs] from the US government started arriving in the country. This is part of a donation of vaccines from the US to African countries and low- and middle-income countries in other parts of the world. he latest National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey which found only one in 10 South Africans believe Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe.
“Vaccines are safe. They are our best protection against this disease and the national vaccination programme is our surest guarantee of a swift health and economic recovery,” said Ramaphosa.
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