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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town – The government has allocated an extra R4 billion to buy Covid-19 vaccines and extend a special distress grant to thousands of people hit by the pandemic, in a Special Appropriation Bill tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The bill, expected to be debated with the National Treasury in a parliamentary committee meeting later on Tuesday, allocates an additional R1.25 billion to the department of health to purchase Covid-19 vaccines and another R2.82 billion to social development for the distress grant of R350 per person.<\/p>\n

South Africa – the worst-hit country on the continent in terms of reported coronavirus infections and deaths – has struggled to kickstart a mass vaccination programme, inoculating just over 329 000 health workers with Johnson & Johnson’s shot as part of a research study, while it waits for its first batch of commercial doses to become available.<\/p>\n

It has ordered 31 million doses of J&J’s one-shot vaccine and 30 million doses of Pfizer’s two-shot vaccine, enough for a combined 46 million of its 60 million people.<\/p>\n

On Sunday it received its first weekly batch of Pfizer vaccine, with the US pharmaceutical giant expected to ship 4.5 million doses by June.<\/p>\n

The Special Appropriation Bill also made adjustments to funding for struggling state airline, South African Airways (SAA), which last week exited a local form of bankruptcy protection called business rescue after roughly 17 months.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s government had previously pledged R10.5 billion to SAA as part of a turnaround strategy, but R2.7 billions had not been handed over as yet.<\/p>\n

The adjustment makes allowance for SAA’s units, such as low-cost airline Mango and its technical division, to also get financing, with R819 million earmarked for Mango and just over 1.6 billion for SAA Technical.<\/p>\n

“Despite the effective date of this Act, the appropriation for the subsidiaries … must be regarded as an appropriation and expenditure for the 2020\/21 financial year,” read the Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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