South Africa to begin phase 2 vaccination programme
South Africa to begin phase 2 vaccination programme Subscribe Health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, says the learnings of the impact of the Covid-19 global pandemic has highlighted the need to ensure that the health system is resilient in the long term to respond to future outbreaks. The minister said this when he tabled the department’s Budget Vote during a mini-plenary of the National Assembly on Thursday. Government imposed a hard lockdown in March last year to allow the health sector to prepare the system for an influx of patients who needed to be hospitalised for Covid-19. In South Africa,...