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Health Department Deputy DG, Nicholas Crisp, has urged South Africans to continue getting vaccinated and not wait for the current increase in COVID-19 infections to become a wave.

[FILE PHOTO]: A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File Photo[FILE PHOTO]: A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File Photoand not wait for the current increase in COVID-19 infections to become a wave.

“We are seeing hospitalisations, we are seeing children being hospitalised, we’re seeing a lot of young people, the numbers are still small, of the people who are being admitted and it’s unvaccinated people. We’ve warned repeatedly that just thinking that you may have wild virus immunity because there’s wild virus immunity in the community is not sufficient. We don’t know how long those antibodies last, and we don’t know how protective they are.

 

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Jabbing doesn’t decrease infections. So what’s the point 🙄

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This vagsins are not safe

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