CABINET has approved the vaccination of the 18-to-34-year-old cohort as from Friday.
“As part of increasing the vaccination rollout programme, cabinet approved the vaccination of persons aged between 18 and 35 from August 20,” the cabinet said in a statement.
The cabinet also received a report from the NCCC indicating that over 9-million vaccines have been administered in SA to date, with over 7-milllion people partially vaccinated and over 4-million fully vaccinated.
“Cabinet welcomed the vaccination rollout plan to increase the uptake of vaccines, particularly in provinces that had shown a reduction in the uptake of vaccines.”
To date, South Africa has administered 9,962,111 vaccines since the beginning of the vaccine rollout.
Cabinet urged people to dispel unfounded and misleading conspiracy theories about the vaccines and choose life by vaccinating.
“Scientific evidence confirms that vaccinated people stand a better chance of surviving from COVID-19 than unvaccinated people. Therefore, we
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