Joining Schoub on the panel were Discovery Health chief commercial officer Dr Ronald Whelan and Dr Stavros Nicolaou, Business For SA health working group chairman and Aspen Pharmacare Group’s senior executive responsible for strategic trade. SA’s target of vaccinating 40 million people by the end of the year was going to be an even greater challenge than the previous campaign to rollout antiretrovirals, said Schoub. “We will need 6,500 health care workers who will each have to immunise 50 people a day,” he said. “But I think we may well surprise ourselves.” Schoub noted that SA had secured about 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, of which 1 million had already arrived in SA. A further 500,000 doses were due to arrive in February.