Maape said this at the launch of the North West’s Vooma Vaccination drive at Mabeskraal village outside Sun City on Saturday. The 64-year-old, Maape who was accompanied by Kgosi Mushi Mabe, the Chairperson of the North West House of Traditional Leadershi; the MECs for Health, Education, Community Safety and Transport Management and Arts, Culture and Sports Recreation; as well as the Executive Mayor of Moses Kotane Local Municipality received his second Pfizer jab at the drive. Maape describes the war against the virus as a historical mission that we all need to fight together.

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 At present over 1 million North West residents have been vaccinated thus far and the province has over 2500 active cases. Most recently the head of the Department of Health’s Vaccination Demand Task Team, David Harrison, told Moneyweb that the platinum mining giants in the North West are instrumental in the vaccination of over 1 million people in the Bojanala District against Covid-19. 

The province aim’s to have over 2,7 million inoculated come December 2021. Harrison says whilst there are only 120 workplace vaccination sites in the country presently, the department is encouraged, by platinum mining companies in the Bojanala district that are willing to vaccinate surrounding communities and not only mine employees. According to Harrison the uptake with respect to vaccination in the North West platinum district is very slow, with over a million in that area alone not yet jabbed.

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