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FILE: Demonstrators hold up banners and placards during a protest against COVID-19 vaccinations in front of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on 21 August 2021.Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP

Vaccine hesitancy

Health Department tackles persistent vaccine hesitancy among 18-34 age group

By Kgomotso Modise

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says there is more than enough capacity for vaccinations but that the department is struggling to convince people to get the jab.

  • Image:  © seventyfour74/ 123rf.com

    Why some South Africans willing to be vaccinated still haven’t had the COVID jab

    President Cyril Ramaphosa set a target to get 70% of the country’s adults vaccinated by the end of 2021 but by that time only 39% of adults had been. Why?

    176 days ago
  • FILE: Demonstrators hold up banners and placards during a protest against COVID-19 vaccinations in front of Groote Schuur Hospital, one of the biggest public hospitals, in Cape Town on 21 August 2021. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    CHARLES WEBSTER: Vaccine ‘pro-choicers' want privilege, not choice

    Anti-vaxxers are fighting for special privilege on the basis of poor science and want the privilege associated with the coronavirus vaccine without having to vaccinate, says Charles Webster.

    197 days ago
  • An Austrian police officer checks a driver's digital vaccination certificate on a smartphone during a traffic control in Graz, Austria, on 15 November 2021, during the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Picture: Erwin Scheriau/AFP

    Health first, freedom second? How COVID is changing democracies

    At the start of the pandemic, governments used sweeping lockdowns and curfews to try to contain the virus. But in the past year, most countries began refining their strategies, rolling out digital passes allowing people to show they are vaccinated.

    219 days ago
  • FILE: An Education Department employee gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Rabasotho community hall in Tembisa on 23 June 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Vaccine hesitation scuppers Health Dept's December herd immunity target

    There were high hopes just a few months ago that 70% of the population would be vaccinated by Christmas but in spite of a healthy supply of doses, people just didn't show up in their numbers to take them.

    225 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa visits a COVID-19 vaccination site in Tembisa on 29 July 2021. Picture: GCIS

    COVID vaccination hesitancy divides South Africans on Christmas Day

    As millions of South Africans celebrate Christmas, some families grappled with difficult decisions when it came to vaccinations.

    231 days ago
  • An education department employee gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Rabasotho community hall in Tembisa on 23 June 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Christmas cancelled, relatives uninvited as jab hesitancy divides SA families

    Eyewitness News spoke to some people who have cancelled their traditional family gatherings with others uninviting friends and relatives because they refuse to get a COVID-19 jab.

    232 days ago
  • FILE: A woman receives a dose of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker at the Zwartkops Raceway in Centurion on 13 August 2021. Picture: Phill Magakoe/AFP

    Disinformation and rumours punted as main drivers of COVID-19 vaccination fears

    Conversations with ordinary South Africans of all ages reveal a widespread distrust in the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines and the real need for accurate information.

    246 days ago
  • The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Health Dept expecting busier vaccine sites as parents bring kids for COVID jabs

    At this stage, children will only be allowed to get one shot of the Pfizer vaccine but this could change once further research determines whether a second dose is safe for this cohort.

    297 days ago
  • A South African healthcare worker receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    ANALYSIS: We can’t banish COVID-19. But we can end the pandemic with vaccines

    Epidemics do not require the total eradication of the disease to end.

    317 days ago
  • Retired healthworker: We need to 'unteach' people that vaccines are a new thing

    Esther Kgomo, who retired as a healthworker 10 years ago, has encouraged more people to think about getting vaccinated, saying it would benefit the economy and the education sector. #COVID19NEWS #VACCINES

    324 days ago
  • Vaccinator at Moses Mabinde stadium in KwaZulu-Natal for COVID-19 vaccinations. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    NYDA: Vaccination is the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic

    More than 16 million vaccine doses have already been administered in South Africa.

    325 days ago
  • 'No need to fear vaccines' - 80-year-old encourages all to get jabbed

    Vaccine hesitancy and its impact are a reality in South Africa and across the world, but Magdalene Mashigo, a fully vaccinated 80-year-old from Pretoria, said people should not fear getting the COVID-19 jab. #COVID19vaccine

    333 days ago
  • One of Discovery Health's vaccination sites. Picture: @Discovery_SA/Twitter.

    Discovery: Rights of unvaccinated employees will be protected

    The healthcare and financial services giant recently announced its plan to make coronavirus vaccination mandatory for staff beginning from next year.

    337 days ago
  • FILE: A hospital worker walks amongst patients in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on 29 December 2020. The patents in this ward are not critically serious, but do require oxygen and to lie down. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP.

    WC officials share data on how COVID affects vaccinated, unvaccinated patients

    Officils gave insights into the hospitalisations and deaths of people over 60 years at the height of the third wave last month.

    337 days ago
  • FILE: A woman receives a dose of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker at the Zwartkops Raceway in Centurion on 13 August 2021. Picture: Phill Magakoe/AFP

    Efforts to combat South Africa's COVID vaccine hesitancy to be ramped up

    The Health Department said government was exploring different ways of ramping up its vaccination drive.

    343 days ago
  • Deputy President David Mabuza visits the Biovac Institute in Midrand on 2 March 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    Mabuza: Vaccine hesitancy, misinformation crippling efforts to curb COVID

    Deputy President David Mabuza raised his concerns about the slow uptake of vaccinations during an oversight visit in Mogale City on Gauteng’s West Rand on Thursday.

    345 days ago
  • The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Sahpra reassures SA on safety of vaccines, says 29 deaths not linked to jabs

    The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has so far investigated 29 deaths that occurred shortly after people received a COVID-19 vaccine shot. Following rigorous investigations SAHPRA has been unable to link any of these deaths to the vaccines.

    355 days ago
  • Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo (centre) with minibus taxi operators and commuters at a mobile vaccination drive at the Noord taxi rank in Johannesburg on 19 August 2021. Picture: Eyewitness News

    Mamabolo: Gauteng govt making inroads against vaccine hesitancy amongst men

    Many of the men that Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo spoke to on Thursday relied on misinformation when refusing the jab, citing unfounded fears of impotency, while one taxi driver said he was afraid of mixing his traditional medication with the vaccine.

    358 days ago
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