Watch | Shabir Madhi explains what government got wrong over the past two years
It’s two years since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the first lockdown in South Africa on March 23 2020.
The first time we started to use vaccines at a public facility level was around May or June last year. By which time, the third wave had already come.In January last year, government signed a deal with the Serum Institute of India to get 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The WHO looked at the data and concluded that even in a country where the Beta coronavirus variant was circulating, those countries should use the AstraZeneca vaccine because it could still protect people against severe disease.
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