At Springs train station in South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg, Simphiwe Dyantyi and her partner wait their turn to board. But they are not going anywhere, instead they are getting COVID-19 jabs inside a stationary train.
The initiative by South African state logistics firm Transnet is meant to bring vaccines closer to people and save them from travelling long distances as the government ramps up its COVID-19 vaccination drive.
Once there, it will make stops in different places in the province, bringing relief to poor villagers who are often without basic health facilities. It will be stationed there until November. "We've been waiting for this moment for a very long time," she told Reuters after receiving her Johnson and Johnson jab.
South Africa has been battered by three coronavirus waves, infecting at least 2,770,575 million people, killing 81,830 - by far the continent's worst toll - and pummelling an already struggling economy with lockdowns and travel restrictions.
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