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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.
Authorities scramble to control vaccine queue jumping in the Western Cape
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Cape Town - Health authorities are scrambling to avoid queue jumping and manage age sequencing for the Covid-19 vaccine on the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS).
This comes after a number of reports on social media that people under the age of 30 are able to register for the Covid-19 vaccine, with some even getting appointment dates for their jabs, although the vaccines are meant at present to be restricted to the over-60s.
A report doing the rounds on social media claims that one person aged under 30 had simply registered on both the Discovery Health Medical Scheme (DHMS) portal as well as on the Department of Health’s EVDS portal, after which they received their SMS to go for a vaccine.
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The National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey revealed that of the three million South Africans who lost their jobs between February and April 2020, two million were women. Pat Magadla, senior business development manager at Old Mutual Investment Group, says this is particularly a risk for single-income families in South Africa, who are most likely headed by a single mom. “Not only are women at a serious economic disadvantage to start with; single mothers in particular also shoulder enormous responsibility for the wellbeing and financial security of their families – with little or no help,” says Magadla.