BASIC Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Saturday briefed the media on the state of readiness for the reopening of schools in South Africa.
The minister said that the sector had targeted 582,000 personnel in the Basic Education Sector to be vaccinated, “and when we formally closed the vaccination programme, we recorded 517,000 people, who have received the vaccines – an 89% vaccination success rate”.
“Reports on the reasons for outstanding numbers, include distance to vaccination sites, vaccination hesitancy, preference of one type of vaccine to another, recent positive Covid-19 results, as well as medical and religious reasons – all account for some of the people, who are still not vaccinated,” Motshekga said.
On the reopening of schools
The minister said that depending on confirmation by president Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday, as a sector there is agreement across the board, that the department is ready for the reopening of schools on
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