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Patients with Covid-19 at Khayelitsha Hospital in Cape Town.
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By Jacqueline Mackenzie, Paul Burkhardt, and Antony Sguazzin

January 4, 2021 at 12:46 PM UTC

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January 4, 2021 at 5:41 PM UTC

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South Africa’s government has drawn criticism over its Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan, with unions and medical groups among those to have expressed concern about the sluggishness of the state’s response amid a resurgence in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.