Vaccine update
The Minister said vaccination is expected to pick up momentum such that 400 000 vaccinations will be administered per day by the end of the week.
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[Read] KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube has conditionally approved and authorised the payment of salaries for workers and other allied municipal needs of Umkhanyakude District Municipality https://t.co/lNLcCavqR3 https://t.co/5HScgdDgd8
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[Read] KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster, the provincial government announced https://t.co/60IrwiL8Fz @kzngov @sziks https://t.co/IOdvVF4AjQ
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[Read] Two cases of rabies have been confirmed in jackals from the Cradle of Humankind area in the Mogale City Municipality, Gauteng, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said https://t.co/CFbYjPssCQ https://t.co/t8ZDmNj7aI
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[Read] Minister in the Presidency for @DWYPD_ZA Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, has called on all government departments and the private sector to give 40% of procurement to women owned businesses https://t.co/FC1mg95vse https://t.co/NDBZQ57GwZ
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[Read] An International Labour Organization (ILO) report has made a raft of recommendations to South Africa if it is to improve its Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) standards #OHSReport https://t.co/qpvYbuG7lR https://t.co/lArOb8R9mX
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- Government is gearing up to administer over 300 000 COVID-19 vaccination inoculations a day, with an unprecedented amount of doses set to arrive in the country in the next coming days and weeks. The delivery of the vaccines will soon see the country have enough stock for about 50 days. As of Thursday, the country had administered over ... See more
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- President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured citizens that the country is not going to run short of COVID-19 vaccines. “We now have a much more confirmed good supply of vaccines. We bringing in quite a lot of innovation in the vaccination process, and one of the innovations in drive through vaccinations where people just come, stay in their ca... See more
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