{"id":1289,"date":"2020-12-24T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/south-africa\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2020-12-24T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:23:39","slug":"the-six-million-south-africans-first-in-line-for-the-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/the-six-million-south-africans-first-in-line-for-the-covid-19-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"The six million South Africans first in line for the Covid-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town &#8211; Up to six million South Africans, or 10% of the population will be first in line to receive the Covax vaccine and priority will be given to four groups of people.<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee Professor Salim Abdool Karim has revealed that the vaccine will be delivered to the country within the half of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The four groups to first receive the jab will be:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we expect that we will not be able to get very large quantities of the vaccine initially we have to prioritise,\u201d said Karim in a video posted on Health Minister Zweli Mkhize\u2019s Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>#ListenToTheExpertsThe Covax vaccine is to be delivered to South Africa by the first half of 2021. So who gets it first? We asked the chairperson of the ministerial advisory committee,Prof Salim Abdool Karim. pic.twitter.com\/njqLzMO8E1<\/p>\n<p>The Covax vaccine programme is the global initiative aimed at working with vaccine manufacturers to provide countries worldwide with equitable access to safe and effective vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week it was announced that the country\u2019s Covax participation was secured after a down payment of $19.2 million (about R283m) was made to secure South Africa\u2019s entry into the Covax facility.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has recorded the most coronavirus infections on the African continent, with more than 954 000 confirmed cases and more than 25 000 deaths to date.<\/p>\n<p>Mkhize warned citizens that current restrictions may need to be reviewed as the country recorded more than 14 000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><b>IOL<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Cape Town &#8211; Up to six million South Africans, or 10% of the population will be first in line to receive the Covax vaccine and priority will be given to four groups of people. Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee Professor Salim Abdool Karim has revealed that the vaccine will be delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[274,275],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The six million South Africans first in line for the Covid-19 vaccine - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/the-six-million-south-africans-first-in-line-for-the-covid-19-vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The six million South Africans first in line for the Covid-19 vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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