Vaccine rollout offers blueprint for future collaboration

South Africa passed the milestone of administering seven million Covid-19 vaccinations last week despite the drug supply limiting efforts to reach higher daily targets. We are still in the ramp up phase, but it would be churlish to continue to bang on about our slow start and not recognise that the partnership between government and the private sector is starting to deliver great results in recovering lost ground. Bottom line though is vaccines are highly effective in reducing death and relieving strain on healthcare systems so we can get back to our regular way of life. Michael Avery spoke to Dr Nicholas Crisp, a deputy director-general in the National Department of Health and the person responsible for coordinating South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, and Martin Kingston, Chair of the B4SA Steering Committee providing National Vaccination Programme Support, to find out the latest on the national vaccination rollout strategy.