Faced with a variant of Covid-19, deemed to be more contagious, South Africans are waiting for precious doses of vaccines to stop a second more virulent wave of the epidemic.
More than 40 million people need to be vaccinated this year.
The government has promised that the first batch will arrive before the end of January.
In the meantime, the number of Covid-19 patients does not seem to be declining.
Undertakers and florists can no longer keep up with demand.
And the numbers of deaths and contamination linked to the coronavirus could be much higher because the number of natural deaths is much higher than normal.
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