Business weighs up request by government to help buy vaccines

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SA has come under pressure by unions, health leaders and opposition parties for its failure to secure any deals with pharmaceutical firms

SA’s biggest businesses said they are “seriously considering” a request by the government to help fund the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines as the disease curbs activity in the continent’s most-industrialised economy.

“Business will fully support a vaccine strategy led by the government, and particularly the department of health and the Treasury, which is transparent, credible, with integrity and clearly defined and properly co-ordinated responsibilities and accountability,” Martin Kingston, vice-president of Business Unity SA, the country’s biggest business grouping, said in an interview on Monday.

While health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday that the country plans to immunise two-thirds of the population, or about 40-million people, he did not give details of the government’s funding plans. He did say assistance was being sought from business, including medical-insurance companies.

 

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You are my source of inspiration when all hope was lost you bring life to me again with your amazing then enough to start life again MarkSuste

Use Gift of the Givers to coordinate this vaccine roll out in SA. The ANC of Life Esidimeni who can't sort out pit toilets, school textbooks, ppe theft or their own corrupt rogue cadres should not be trusted. CovidVaccine

Why help, government got R500 billion, use that

But then let NGO's run the vaccinations... and not national government ...

They will live to regret. ANC will Rob them too. They should go directly to suppliers and setup and independent body of professionals to map out a plan to administer

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