THE Department of Health has announced that over 100 000 healthcare workers in South Africa have been vaccinated, saying government is encouraged by the developments as it pushes to teach its target of vaccinating 1.5 million people by the end of March, under the Sisonke Protocol.
“We are very encouraged to have reached a milestone of over 100 000 healthcare workers vaccinated,” said Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize.
Health department spokesperson Popo Maja said South Africa is rapidly and successfully rolling out delivery of the early access Johnson & Johnson vaccine to healthcare workers through the Sisonke Study.
“Within just over two weeks, from a standing start 100,180 patient-facing healthcare workers in the public and private sector have been vaccinated against COVID19. The Sisonke Study is outperforming original targets for number of vaccines delivered in its first week and is set to continue this momentum in its third week as more sites
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