 South Africa's health authorities have started vaccinating the homeless, one of the country's most vulnerable communities. They are doing so with one dose of vaccines to ensure food protection against the coronavirus. It is estimated that around 200,000 people live on the streets of the country that is hardest hit in Africa by COVID. The homeless people who want to be vaccinated will be able to sign up whether or not they have formal identity documents. Especially in the winter they are very susceptible to flus and colds and where they may have comorbidities already, TB for example or diabetes, many have HIV. You know these are serious health issues which then they can be impacted further by something like COVID. Because it's a one dose because with a Pfizer it means that you have to come back again 42 days. So we have to provide J&J and I'm glad that and I will be pushing more to be used and also in other homeless shelters because you don't want to bother people to come because they will forget anyway about their return, I mean their return dates. Fresh News Updates