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South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination programme now takes the next step, following Cabinet’s approval to vaccinate people between 18 and 35 years from Friday, 20 August 2021.
After receiving a report from the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC), Cabinet said the data indicated that over nine million vaccines had been administered in SA, with over seven million people partially vaccinated and over four million fully vaccinated.
In a statement on Thursday, 19 August 2021, the group declared, “Cabinet welcomed the vaccination roll out plan to increase the uptake of vaccines, particularly in provinces that had shown a reduction in the uptake of vaccines. As part of increasing the vaccination roll-out programme, Cabinet approved the vaccination of persons aged between 18 and 35 years from 20 August 2021.”
In addition, the Cabinet has also urged people to dispel unfounded and misleading conspiracy theories about vaccines and choose life by vaccinating. Further pointing out, “Scientific evidence confirms that vaccinated people stand a better chance of surviving from COVID-19 than unvaccinated people. Cabinet encourages all unvaccinated people in South Africa to get vaccinated because vaccines protect us from getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and they save lives.”
Cabinet has further approved keeping the country under the Risk-Adjusted Alert Level 3 of the national lockdown, as advised by the Ministerial Advisory Committee.
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Best people will make their choices I am taking the vaccine