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The National Department of Health has reached a milestone of having administered more than 10 million Covid-19 vaccines, however, the majority are people who are not yet fully vaccinated as Pfizer consists of the jabs.
The government has ramped up the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to protect citizens against severe diseases and reached the milestone on Thursday evening.
South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is expected to increase drastically following the Cabinet’s approval for the vaccination of people aged between 18 and 35 years from 20 August 2021.
Cabinet urged people to dispel unfounded and misleading conspiracy theories about vaccines and choose life by vaccinating.
“Scientific evidence confirms that vaccinated people stand a better chance of surviving from COVID-19 than unvaccinated people. Cabinet encourages all unvaccinated people in South Africa to get vaccinated because vaccines protect us from getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and they save lives.”
Cabinet said the process to get vaccinated is easy.
“Simply visit your nearest vaccination site with your identity document to be registered and vaccinated. You can find your closest site from the more than 3 000 vaccination sites across the country at www.sacoronavirus.co.za/active-vaccination-sites.”
Cabinet has further approved the keeping of the country under the Risk-Adjusted Alert Level 3 of the national lockdown, as advised by the Ministerial Advisory Committee.
