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The South African Govt. Has Secured Over 20 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

Femi Balo by Femi Balo
January 12, 2021
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his government has the country has ordered for millions more in Coronavirus vaccines bringing the total number to about 20 million doses available to its 57 million people.

The nation will stay on infection alert level 3, Ramaphosa said Monday in a broadcast address. The ban on alcohol is still in place as lan borders will remain shut until February 15th. Public social events other than memorial services won’t be permitted, and a nationwide curfew in time will be implemented from 9pm to 5am.

The President said “The pandemic in our country is now at its most devastating. We must unite to overcome the grave and persisting crisis our country faces.”

The pandemic and limitations forced to contain it have crushed Africa’s most industrialized economy, and the expansion of checks that happened at the tallness of the Christmas season bode sick for endeavours to design a bounce back. The economy is assessed by the public authority to have gotten the most in ninety years a year ago.

The vast majority of the 20 million immunization portions the public authority has made sure about will show up in the main portion of this current year, the president said. He didn’t give subtleties of the extra stock arrangements, saying they would be uncovered whenever dealings are closed.

The administration a week ago declared it had struck an arrangement for an underlying 1.5 million dosages of an immunization created by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford from The Serum Institute of India Ltd., with first shipments set to show up this month. It will mean to vaccinate 66% of the populace before the year’s over.

The President added the government was exploiting all means to get even more vaccines as soon as possible. South Africa we should add has done better than most of its African counterparts in ordering vaccines. Nigeria for example is planning to order 100,000 initial doses for medical staff and aged people in a country of about 200 million people. The infection rate even in the face of very low testing rates is now well over 100,000 cases. Experts believe the real thing could be anywhere between 500,000 and one million cases. Death are reportedly underreported but whatever the case, South Africa has done far more testing than many African nations. There is also the issue of the African immunity system that experts think may have a role to play in the low infection rates on the continent as well.

Well the South African government has received criticism from its unions and professionals over its moderate advancement in securing immunizations, even as in excess of 40 different nations start their vaccination programs.

South Africa leads African nations with a 1.23 million infections reported till date. 

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