RACE IS ON

23rd July 2021 By: Darlene Creamer

RACE IS ON

For South Africa to have any chance of extending its 2021 economic rebound into a full-blown multidecade recovery, an Olympian effort has to be made to vaccinate as many people as possible in as fast a time as possible. Much like the Covid-affected Tokyo Olympics, South Africa is in a real race. Those countries that fail to reach the vaccination threshold needed to prevent severe disease, hospitalisations and new variants are going to be left behind economically and socially.