SA’s Covid vaccination programme faltered this week, dipping below 200,000 jabs a day instead of moving into higher gear as promised.
“The rollout has slowed down when it needs to be accelerating rapidly,” professor Jeremy Seekings, director of the centre for social science research at the University of Cape Town , said on Friday.
More than 8-million doses have been given over the past 12 weeks, and 31-million doses are expected to become available to the rollout over the next eight weeks. Stavros Nicolaou of Business for SA, which is assisting with the rollout, said new batches of vaccines required approval before they could be distributed. “It takes three to four days before the vaccines arrive at vaccine sites. Some sites got less than they ordered or than they normally use, but we will be in a less constrained environment this coming week,” he said.
“Government is either misleading the public or is allocating vaccine doses inefficiently — so that unused doses accumulate in poorly performing sites while sites where demand is high are starved of vaccine — or is covering up problems of theft and wastage.”
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