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People who are on a medical aid must indicate and provide details in the Department of Health s booking portal.
For now, private medical scheme members are being allocated to privately managed vaccination sites.
But these sites also vaccinate state patients as allocated to them by the Department of Health.
Phase 2 of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout is in full swing, but only for people over 60 and frontline health-care workers - for now. The rules are the same for medical aid members as schemes don t have a separate plan for private sector health-care users.
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Medical aid members won t be given priority in the queue for Covid-19 jab
9 April 2021 5:32 PM
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The mass vaccination programme is expected to start in May following the arrival of 51 million jabs from various drug makers.
Medical aid members won t be given priority in the queue for Covid-19 vaccine ahead on uninsured patients, once the country s mass vaccination rollout gets underway in May.
That s according to Ron Whelan, the Chief Commercial Officer at Discovery Health, who says the medical aid scheme will be working alongside government to ensure a smooth rollout of the vaccination programme.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that phase two of the vaccination programme will begin on 17 May, after that the country s secured 51 million jabs from various drug makers.