Govt has 'dropped the ball' on Covid-19 vaccine procurement. What now?
The South African government’s failure to procure a Covid-19 vaccine and implement a rollout plan timeously has sparked rage throughout the country. Implementing a successful vaccine programme will ‘help cut short the pandemic and yield immense direct savings on medical resources’, says Jonathan Katzenellenbogen. However, this end goal is still quite some time away, with South Africa reportedly months behind other countries. So what are we as South Africans to do? Below, Katzenellenbogen outlines the situation the country finds itself in and expresses a possible solution – ‘puttin...