KZN Health targets 955k Phase 2 vaccinations by mid-September
The second week of Phase Two of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout is well underway.
Thousands of senior citizens have been visiting sites around the country to get their shots.
Newswatch's Nushera Soodyal was at the Addington Hospital and Moses Mabhida stadium sites in Durban on Tuesday.
LISTEN: She filed this report.
The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department hopes to have vaccinated just under a million over-60s by mid-September.
The province has been powering through Phase 2 of the rollout, which began over a week ago.
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The department's HOD Sandile Tshabalala said: "We started Phase Two on the 17th of May. Up to now, we have able to vaccinate more than 84 000 people and this is a combination of both the elderly - who are 60-years-old and above and health care workers, which we want to finalise vaccinating this month."
Tshabalala says so far, there are 27 vaccination centres for this phase.
"We are going to be opening more sites as from this week and going forward we are going to be opening even mobile sites, but in different districts. This will be indicated."
