Until now Covid-19 vaccinations in South Africa have only taken place in
the context of clinical trials and the Sisonke implementation study. That will
change on Monday (17 May) when the country’s mass vaccination programme kicks
off. It will also see the start of phase 2 of the vaccine rollout plan, as adults
over the age of 60 become eligible for vaccination.
If things go according to plan, the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses
administered in the country should increase in the coming weeks to well over
100 000 per day. In the Sisonke study it has mostly been in the region of
10 000 a day, although numbers have increased substantially in the last