More people were diagnosed with Covid-19 during the past seven days than any other week since the start of the pandemic.
Browsing: AstraZeneca
The rand weakened early on Monday after South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination plan suffered a setback over the weekend as the government put on hold the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine in its programme.
Government, lauded for its swift lockdown in March to curb the spread of the coronavirus, is now being pilloried for being slow off the mark to secure vaccines.
South Africa, the country with the worst confirmed coronavirus outbreak in Africa, is yet to provide clarity on how it plans to order vaccines, even as the global race to secure inoculations accelerates.