The health department’s Dr Nicholas Crisp told MyBroadband that around 20% of vaccination sites had closed.
Many private Covid-19 vaccination sites in South Africa are shutting down because they are no longer financially viable.
“It is not financially viable, and vaccine waste is too high with the current turnout,” he said. “About 80% of the number are still open but not all in the same location.” He added that public sites were open. However, staff were moving around to communities with poor coverage.“The provincial departments are doing what they can to keep sites open, but they are mostly moving vaccination into the routine health services now,” he stated.on weekly Covid-19 vaccinations in South Africa, which show a steep decline from its previous highs in September 2021.
South Africa has not yet reached a 50% Covid-19 vaccination rate, which means more than half of all adults have not received a single dose of the vaccine.
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