Tshwane mayor urges residents to get vaccinated
The Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metro, Cllr Randall Williams urges residents to get vaccinated and help the country reduces high levels of Covid-19 related death rate.
Tshwane mayor Randall Williams urged residents to get vaccinated and stop doubting the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccination to prevent a high death rate.
“European countries such as Denmark are now living a normal life because the majority of people got vaccinated,” Williams told Rekord during a service delivery oversight visit at the Caledonian stadium in Arcadia on Monday.
He said data had revealed that vaccinated people were safe from experiencing serious consequences of contracting the coronavirus.
“Even in a country like the United Kingdom, you find that although the infection rate is still high, the death rate is extremely low because of the advances they have made in having more people vaccinated. However, here in South Africa, we have an infection rate lower than in the UK, but the death rate is much higher.”
He said the reason for this was that South Africa still has a high number of people who have not yet been vaccinated.
The mayor urged the people of Tshwane who were illegible for vaccination to get the jab.
His call has comes amid a lot of confusing information, especially on social media, aimed at discrediting the vaccines. This has created high levels of uncertainty about the effectiveness of the vaccine and the aim of having more people vaccinated.
Williams said there was evidence that Covid-19 vaccines saved lives.
“So please, come out and get vaccinated to protect yourself, your family, and friends.”
Addressing the nation on Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that a vaccinated person could still be infected and pass on the virus to others.
He, however, said that if many people were not vaccinated and remained vulnerable to infections, the chance of new and more dangerous variants emerging was high.
He said this was why vaccines were the most potent weapon that the country possessed in its fight against the pandemic.
The Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metro, Cllr Randall Williams, urges residents to get vaccinated and help the country reduces high levels of Covid-19 related death rate. Photo: Ron Sibiya
“The sooner we are all vaccinated, the sooner we can open up sports venues to spectators, welcome tourists to our beautiful country, meet friends and family and return to offices and other places of work.”
He said when everyone was vaccinated, the country would be able to return the economy to full operation and create much-needed jobs.
Ramaphosa also announced the moving of the country from adjusted level 3 lockdown to level to level 2.
He said this led to among other things, easing of restrictions on the movement of people and social gatherings.
Curfew is now between 23:nd to 04:00.
Non-essential establishments such as restaurants should close by 22:00 to allow their employees and patrons to travel home before the curfew started.
He said gatherings would be limited to a maximum of 250 people indoors from the previous limit of 50 and 500 outdoors from the previous 100.
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