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“The funds to pay the outstanding amount after the deposit made by the Solidarity Fund, around R1.8bn, have been allocated and let’s take this opportunity to appreciate once again the way the Solidarity Fund has partnered with the government.
“Having secured 10% of the population, we have embarked on other efforts to get the remaining 57% of the population to be the target by the end of 2021 but, more importantly, we are making efforts to get the vaccines a lot. earlier, hopefully like early February 2021.
“This will largely depend on the success of the current bilateral negotiations in which we meet with various companies.”
About 40 countries have already started implementing vaccines and there is a growing chorus of critics wondering why the same is not happening in South Africa.
An article in the sunday time by the Progressive Health Forum, consisting of some of South Africa’s most eminent medical experts, suggested that the state had screwed up the procurement of vaccines.
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