Dylan Bettencourt
As teachers prepare to get their first dose in the coming week, the next in line for the Covid-19 vaccine will be police officers, prison warders and then the military.
The Health Department’s deputy director-general Nicholas Crisp said that the department had identified 145,000 officials and 36,000 civilians working in the police service.
After the police, he said, would come members of the South African National Defence Force and correctional services employees.
South Africa is currently using Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer vaccines and Crisp said the government will be receiving a further two million doses for the next phase of essential workers.
Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, acting health minister, said two million people had now received one dose.
The stakes are high for the vaccination programme as the third wave of infections kicks in.
In the last 24 hours the country recorded 13,575 cases, with most of them being in Gauteng.
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