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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that government hopes to inoculate 1,1 million people by the end of March.
Dr Mkhize detailed the vaccine roll-out plan in the NCOP yesterday, telling MPs that more than 32,000 frontline healthcare workers had now been vaccinated against Covid-19.
He said that over the next few weeks South Africa will receive 500 000 doses from Johnson & Johnson and another 600 000 from Pfizer.
Dr Mkhize said bigger consignments will start trickling in from April onwards.
As of Thursday 25 February, 52 647 people have been vaccinated.
According to the latest statistics the Eastern Cape currently has 387 active Covid cases.
