Fear, fake news, registration process affecting vaccination of elderly: Kubayi-Ngubane

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This was revealed by acting minister of health Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane during her first parliamentary sitting before the portfolio committee on health on Thursday.

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has urged South Africans not to fall for fake news about Covid-19. File photo.Fear driven by fake news as well as poor accessibility to the government's online registration portal — the electronic vaccination data system — are some of the reasons why SA's elderly are hesitant to get vaccinated.

The research looked at some of the reasons there was a low registration number in phase 2 of the government’s national vaccination rollout in the category of over-60s now under way. On Tuesday, Ramaphosa placed the country on alert level 3 amid a surge of Covid-19 infections, particularly in Gauteng. Ramaphosa extended the curfew and limited the hours alcohol may be sold and reduced the numbers of people allowed at gatherings.

“You do not know the status of [the] majority of the people that you are gathering with, they could be positive [with Covid-19] and — as you are running, marching and protesting, burning things that you are holding with your hands, you are breathing into each other because you have close contact with each other — you are compromising not only yourself but your families, loved ones and members of the community.

“The clinical methods remain critical. We had a meeting with MECs across the provinces where we were re-emphasising the issue of testing, tracing, isolating and treating.”On field hospitals, Kubayi-Ngubane said, MECs reported that during the first and second waves, they were not used to full capacity.

 

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