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THE Democratic Alliance has threatened to take President Cyril Ramaphosa to court over government’s COVID-19 vaccine roll out strategy.
DA leader John Steenhuisen said there’s not one single COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa yet, while other countries have already vaccinated millions of their citizens.
He said the national government’s failure to provide one or more COVID-19 vaccines timeously when these vaccines are available was a violation of people’s rights, in terms of Section 27(1) of the Constitution, to have access to healthcare services.
“We don’t have them because when every other country was phoning and meeting and negotiating with suppliers as far back as May last year; our government put all its eggs in the WHO Covax basket where we could barely secure enough vaccines for 10 per cent of our people and then they did nothing until just the other day,” said Steenhuisen on Monday.
Steenhuisen said
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