Provincial Health head, dr. Keith Cloete says all systems are in place for the vaccine roll-out campaign , with an optimistic start date of next Wednesday, the 17th of February. The goal is to vaccinate over 133 000 provincial health care workers. Over 8000 workers in the Western Cape have contracted the disease thus far, and 115 have died.

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Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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The co-principal investigator for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine study in South Africa says they are not cutting any corners with ethics rules as the country prepares to inoculate health care workers from as early as next week, as part of an implementation study. Up to half a million J&J doses are potentially available, initially, with the supplies being drawn from J&J’s research stock, as its vaccine has yet to be approved by regulators. The first 80 000 doses are expected to arrive next week.
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The department of health says 2 488 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the country, in the latest 24-hour monitoring period. There were another 237 Covid-19 related deaths, taking the total number of fatalities from the respiratory illness to 47 382. 17 of the 237 fatalities were from the Western Cape.

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