1 000 vaccinated at brewery’s pop-up vaccination drive
The drive was aimed at administering the vaccine to both SAB staff and residents in the surrounding communities.
More than a thousand people received their Covid-19 vaccinations during a two-day pop-up vaccination drive at a brewery plant in Rosslyn last week.
The drive was aimed at administering the vaccine to both SAB staff and residents in the surrounding communities.
“It gives me great pleasure to announce that this joint venture was an immense success with a total of 1 069 vaccines administered during the two-day drive, far exceeding our initial targets,” mayor Randall Williams said.
The pop-up vaccination site was setup between last Wednesday and Thursday.
“During my visit on the second day of the drive, I was thoroughly impressed by the comprehensive setup with areas for screening, registration, validation, vaccination and observation,” he said.
Williams said all of this was provided for by the SAB while the Tshwane metro assisted by availing staff to assist with registration for and administering the vaccines.
“The city would like to thank SAB for spearheading this vaccination drive, including the time and resources the company committed to making this a success,” he said, adding that he hoped this would lead to many more private-public partnerships to drive vaccinations.
“It’s also worth noting that the city had recently increased the number of its Covid-10 vaccination sites from 45 to 50,” Williams said.
All of the metro’s sites were said to be running efficiently with staff ready to assist by providing a professional and high quality service.
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During her oversight visit to the pop-up vaccination site at the beginning of the drive, Gauteng health MEC Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi said they wanted to interact with residents to find out why they were reluctant to get inoculated.
“We want to explain to them that this vaccination has proven to be effective in minimising severe illness, hospitalisation and death in the event that one contracts the coronavirus,” she said, adding that she hoped others would also be encouraged to present themselves to get vaccinated.
Mokgethi said public-private partnerships such as these would help with accelerating the vaccination roll-out programme, particularly with the looming threat of a fourth wave toward the end of the year.
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