COVID-19 vaccine: 67% of population to be immunised by end of 2021

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COVID-19 vaccine: 67% of population to be immunised by end of 2021

Mkhize said on Sunday that the COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in SA by the second quarter of 2021, with 40 million to be vaccinated in 2021.

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