Attendees of the #COVID19 Clinical Preparedness Meeting being briefed by Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize on establishing common protocol in tackling Covid19. #CoronaVirusUpdates
Outlining the challenges that lie ahead in tackling #Covid19 - contact tracing, quarantine & stocks. #CoronaVirusUpdates
#ZweliMkhize: No professional must be inconvenienced. All measures will be in place to ensure that anyone who refuses quarantine,will face the law. #COVID19#CoronaVirusUpdates
#ZweliMkhize: The wrong messages move faster than the right ones. We need to ensure that we are disseminating factual information and encouraging the media to do the same. #COVID19#CoronaVirusUpdates
#ZweliMkhize: Tracing is going to get more difficult. This disease will be fought by society. The extent to which society fails is the extent to which we all fail #COVID19#CoronaVirusUpdates
I thought about this day many times and wished it would never come or at least not now!!
Remembering the first day we went as team led by Nxamalala in 1994 as the 3 newly appointed ANC MECs in Kzn
We reached NND around 22:00
Isilo came out of kwaKhangela Palace opened his arms and said “welcome home” and gave loud laugh as we were ushered in
We had dinner at 01:00 and toured all palaces waking up the oNdlunkulu to greet and we left Nongoma 06:30.
As we joined caucus in legislature in Pietermaritzburg at 11:00, we were still in disbelief of the night gone by as we gave the account to our comrades.
The government’s process of procuring vaccines preceded the discovery of the 501Y.V2 variant and other variants. #VaccineRolloutSA
Before the efficacy results, SA could not delay receipt of the vaccine batches to await the results of the efficacy studies by our scientists, as this would have relegated the country to the back of the line for vaccines due to global shortage of supplies. #VaccineRolloutSA
There are concerns in the public domain about the expiry date of the received AstraZeneca vaccine batches (30th April 2021).#VaccineRolloutSA
We have always said the second wave is going to be coming and the only way we will be protected is by developing herd immunity through vaccination. #VaccineStrategy
The only way of being able to deal with the #COVID19 pandemic is the provision of immunity through vaccination. We have been trying to follow what the best way is to deal with this. #VaccineStrategy
The vaccines will need to be made available quickly so that most of our citizens are
covered by the end of the first year of rollout - this year. #VaccineStrategy
28 469 South Africans are known to have succumbed to COVID-19 this year- amongst those were 436 public health care workers who paid the ultimate price in the frontline. #NYECandleLighting
Our health care workers continue to bravely fight this war even though they have been pushed beyond their call of duty. #NYECandleLighting
But we must remember that as the rate of transmission rises so too do the infections amongst health care workers rise. To date, we have recorded a cumulative 43 124 health care workers who became infected with #COVID19. #NYECandleLighting