Senior citizens urged to register for the Covid-19 vaccine
To date, over 1.227 million senior citizens and over 914 000 healthcare workers have signed up on EVDS.
Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has urged the elderly, aged 60 and over, to register up for their Covid-19 vaccine, as the country began the second phase of the vaccination rollout on Monday.
“All services are zero-rated and do not need airtime, data or money to use the services,” the Minister said. He reminded people that there are five ways to register on the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS):
- Visit vaccine.enroll.gov.za
- Use the WhatsApp line 0600 123456
- Register via SMS by dialling *134*832#
- Call the Covid-19 hotline 0800 029 999
- Use the new QR by simply scanning and following the prompts.
Mkhize said provinces, the national Department of Health and Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) teams are conducting robust registration drives, and have since seen the numbers going up because of these initiatives.
To date, more than 1.227 million senior citizens and over 914 000 healthcare workers have signed up on EVDS, which brings the number to over 2.1 million citizens. “We recommend that as many people as possible register beforehand,” Mkhize said, noting that vaccination centres are currently not allowing walk-ins.
“However, going forward, we will be able to do so. The programme has been designed to avoid long queues. This is why it is important that as many people as possible register beforehand, and follow the instructions which they receive by SMS.”
Mkhize said citizens living in old age homes will not receive an SMS because the vaccines will be brought to them.
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