South Africa has vaccinated 2 million people against the new crown pneumonia

　　(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) South Africa has vaccinated 2 million people against new crown pneumonia

　　China News Service, Johannesburg, June 18 (Reporter Wang Xi) The South African Ministry of Health announced on the 18th that up to now, 2 million people in the country have been vaccinated against the new crown pneumonia.

　　On the same day, South Africa’s Acting Minister of Health Ngubane, together with the Ministry of Health’s team, notified the recent progress of South Africa’s new crown pneumonia vaccination.

　　Ngubane said that 2 million people have been vaccinated against the new crown pneumonia, and the South African government will speed up the vaccination.

According to her, on the morning of the 18th, 300,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine ordered by the South African government arrived in South Africa.

In addition, more vaccines will be shipped to South Africa one after another to alleviate the current shortage of new crown pneumonia vaccines in South Africa.

　　According to Dr. Nicholas Crisp, an expert from the South African Ministry of Health, the South African government's vaccination work for teaching staff across the country will also be formally implemented from next week, when nearly 600,000 people will be vaccinated.

He said: “The South African Ministry of Basic Education is organizing school staff to go to the vaccination location designated by the South African government, and will also arrange transportation so that they can reach the vaccination location as scheduled. Point staff will be the next batch of vaccinations.

　　At present, South Africa is at the peak of the third wave of new crown pneumonia. The number of infected people in various places has surged, and the average test positive rate has exceeded 20%.

Under this circumstance, the vaccination work in South Africa cannot be delayed, but since the start of the vaccination work in February this year, the work has progressed slowly and suffered several interruptions.

　　As of press time, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in South Africa has reached 17,86079, with 58,323 deaths.

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