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Several civil society organisations in SA are calling for government to share information about the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines after the health department announced this week that it had acquired doses from India for frontline health workers. Picture: Reuters
Several civil society organisations in SA are calling for government to share information about the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines after the health department announced this week that it had acquired doses from India for frontline health workers. Picture: Reuters

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As government sends mixed messages about when SA will obtain vaccines, experts say the plan is financially and logistically flawed

With an embattled healthcare sector almost overwhelmed by the second Covid-19 surge, the full extent of how ill-prepared the country is for a massive, unprecedented vaccination campaign, let alone the initial healthcare worker immunisation, is now emerging.

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