{"id":494565,"date":"2021-05-31T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=494565"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:45:19","slug":"businesses-in-south-africa-will-start-offering-covid-19-vaccines-to-workers-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/494565\/businesses-in-south-africa-will-start-offering-covid-19-vaccines-to-workers-what-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses in South Africa will start offering Covid-19 vaccines to workers – what you should know"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa aims to rapidly scale up its vaccine efforts in the coming months as it aims to vaccinate a total of 40 million adults in the next year.<\/p>\n

In a presentation this week, Business for South Africa (B4SA) said that a key part of this rollout will be private-sector vaccinations offered to workers, their families, and communities,<\/p>\n

The group said that around 110 private and 210 public sites planned to be online this week and about 348,000 people have received their first shot.<\/p>\n

Some of South Africa’s largest employers are now looking to open an initial 89 workplace sites which are capable of vaccinating as many as 24,300 people a day.<\/p>\n

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B4SA said that 3.7 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected by the end of June, with two million doses expected to arrive at the end of May.<\/p>\n

This means that there is a required daily capacity of 192,000 vaccinations a day to consume this supply over the next six week, it said.<\/p>\n

“Work is in progress to ensure that public and private sites have sufficient capacity and coverage.<\/p>\n

“General practitioners, pharmacies, hospitals, occupational health and safety, and medical scheme and other groups are committing resources and infrastructure to provide the capacity.”<\/p>\n

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The mining industry is expected to be the biggest contributor initially, with 44 workplace sites planned, capable of vaccinating 17,580 people a day.<\/p>\n

Agriculture, the industrial sector and other businesses will make up the rest of their initial sites, with more workplaces planned once they have received approval from the department of health.<\/p>\n

The department has said that it will prioritise expedite applications from sites that can handle Pfizer 1100 dose pack size and have the potential for high throughput.<\/p>\n

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South Africa reported 3,755 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday (30 May), taking the total reported to 1,662,825.<\/p>\n

Deaths have reached 56,439, while recoveries have climbed to 1,556,874, leaving the country with a balance of 49,512 active cases. The total number of vaccines administered is 968,319.<\/p>\n

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Read: Unions want tougher lockdown restrictions on gatherings in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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