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JOHANNESBURG – The civil society group AfriForum and the Solidarity union will take legal action against the government’s decision on the purchase and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
This comes after Health Minister Zweli Mkhize assured that the country’s government’s vaccine procurement and implementation plan is underway.
The two organizations want to prevent the government from being the sole buyer of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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“We don’t understand why the government should be the sole buyer and distributor. Now this would be something that we would object to with any government, but with this government, in particular, these are the guys who can’t provide textbooks to schools, power to the country, who are now assuring us that they will be able to provide vaccines to the population, “said Connie Mulder, director of the Solidarity Research Institute.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that one million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will be launched this January.
Mkhize said the vaccine comes from India.
Another 500,000 vaccines will be received in February.
