Provincial officials made two announcements on Wednesday: the province is entering its third wave of Covid-19 infections and the Cape Town International Convention Centre will open as a mass vaccine site.
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WC ropes in 267 UWC nursing students to help with COVID-19 vaccinations These students have received additional training from the provincial health department on how to inoculate people. Ernest Adonis (78), from Bellville, receives his COVID-19 shot at the Karl Bremer Hospital in Cape Town on 17 May 2021. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News
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CAPE TOWN - Two hundred and sixty-seven final-year nursing students from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) will help administer COVID-19 vaccines in the province.
These students have received additional training from the provincial health department on how to inoculate people.
Officials said that this was a major boost as the province’s phase 2 vaccination drive would be scaled up in the coming weeks.