South Africa should donate its spare Covid-19 vaccines: Doing so can bolster its soft power in the SACD region
. These doses were worth about R13-million. In the context of our scarcity of resources, R13-million is a lot of money.
This is particularly so for many SADC and African countries, which are generally poor. In countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar,with about one in every 100 people vaccinated in the case of the DRC, and five in every 100 people in Madagascar as of March 2022. These figures are clearly alarming and indicate that the regional response to the Covid-19 pandemic in SADC has been poor.
. The Covax facility was created with the purpose of increasing fair and equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, especially for impoverished and developing countries. Many of these countries are concentrated in Africa in particular. In the meantime, many South Africans remain doubtful of taking the magical Covid-19 vaccine shots, as vaccinationcontinues to permeate in the country. As initiatives such as vaccination cash rewards and vaccine certificates introduced by the government continue to fail to encourage people to vaccinate en masse, it appears that vaccine hesitancy will be with us for a time to come. Therefore, it is likely that more and more vaccines would expire in the coming weeks and months.
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