With the Sisonke Protocol vaccine programme back in full swing, the Eastern Cape Department of Health has called on people aged 60 and above to register for the lifesaving jab.
The country’s vaccination programme has been strengthened by the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine – which will mostly be administered in urban areas because it needs two doses.
The one does Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be mainly used in rural areas as it does not require people to be traced again and given the second dose.
While the vaccine was initially administered in Gqeberha, Mthatha and East London, it has been spread to other hospitals in the province as the Eastern Cape hopes to inoculate 4.5-million people in order to achieve herd immunity.

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After an intervention from Eastern Cape Premier, Hon. Lubabalo Mabuyane and Director-General Mbulelo Sogoni, the Health Department Treasury Departments, the community service nurses whose contracts had lapsed , will be placed  at facility level. Initially the department had planned to allocate to various facilities by April 2021

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INTETHO YOHLAHLO LWABIWO-MALI NOMGAQO-NKQUBO 2020/2021

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Nkulubaphathiswa ebekekileyo

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Malungu Abekekileyo eNdlu Yowiso-mthetho yePhondo

Sihlalo weKomiti ejongene nemisebenzi yezeMpilo

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Neendwalutho, Molweni kuni nonke.

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Malungu Abekekileyo, singungelene apha ngexesha elimangalisa ngokungenambaliso ebomini bethu, nalapho ilizwe liqubisana nobhubhane iCovid-19. Ndithi thaca le ntetho yomgaqo-nkqubo kwisithuba esingaphezulu kweenyanga ezimbini emva kokuba bendicwangcisele ukuyithi thaca yaye ndiyithi thaca ndisebenzisa uqhagamshelwano lobuchwepheshe nto leyo ekwasisikhumbuzo sokuba undalashe yinto yamhlamnenene. Sithetha nje, iphondo lethu lihleli kwindawo yesithathu kulo suleleko ngulo bhubhane apho abantu abosulelekileyo bangamawaka amabini anamakhulu amane anamashumi amahlanu anesithoba (2 459), kwasweleka abangamashumi amahlanu anesithathu (53) kwaze kwaphila abaliwaka elinamashumi amathathu anesithandathu (1 036) kwabo bebesulelekile yaye eli nani lisakhula. Lo bhubhane uguqule ubomi bethu ngokumandla yaye wanyanzelisa inguqu egqibeleleyo yoko besikucwangcise tanci ebesiza kwenza kunyaka wokuqala wolawulo lwesithandathu wexesha lolawulo lwentando yesininzi eMzantsi Afrika.

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TO: NEWS EDITORS/ JOURNALISTS

DATE: 27 MAY 2020

The Eastern Cape Health Department has been criticised for what some have labelled as poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yes, the Department has had challenges like any other province because this pandemic is new to us all, but at all times our objective has always been to save people's lives.

Our dedicated health workers have really gone above and beyond the call of duty during this challenging time.

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