Johannesburg – In efforts to expand the vaccination drive and reach as many eligible persons as possible the Gauteng Provincial Government, together with the SABC will on Thursday, 26 August 2021, unveil a pop-up vaccination site at the SABC’s Auckland Park campus.
The Gauteng mobile vaccination team will be stopping by the SABC Pop-Up site in SABC Radio Park, Auckland Park on 26 – 28 August.
The opening of the vaccination site will offer both walk-in and drive-through services.
Group Chief Executive Officer of the SABC Madoda Mxakwe welcomed the initiative and said, “This is one of the great partnerships we have entered into with the Gauteng Provincial Government as we have a collective responsibility to fight Covid-19. We have committed our resources as a public service broadcaster to ensure that South Africans have one more added facility. It is our wish that through this partnership this service will be extended to other SABC offices.”
Mxakwe’s sentiments were echoed by the Acting Director General at GPG Thabo Masebe who pointed out that the provincial government has sought to forge relations across sectors to ensure that the vaccination programme reaches every comer of the province.
“Part of our strategy to ramp up the vaccination drive is to work closely with all institutions that are able to help government expand its reach. The SABC as a public broadcaster through its multiple platforms offers an opportunity to ensure that we empower communities with messages that help them to appreciate the importance of vaccines and that through vaccination we are able to minimise severe illness and hospitalisation.”
All persons who are 18 years and older are invited to visit the SABC pop site or their nearest vaccination site to get vaccinated. The vaccination teams will help register people on the spot.
The public will also get a chance to meet some of their favourite on air personalities as they get vaccinated.
Twenty-six-year-old Cameron Noble works around Newtown. He was on his way to work and decided to finally get his jab at the Bree Taxi Rank pop-up vaccination site. It only takes a few minutes, come with your ID or driver's licence #VaccinesSaveLives #IChooseVaccination pic.twitter.com/Diocg0CNJg
— GautengGov (@GautengProvince) August 25, 2021
The situation at Zwartkops Raceway R55 drive-through vaccination site. Over 150 people have been vaccinated this morning. If you’re 18 years and old Come out with your ID/drivers licence and get your jab. #iChooseVaccination #VaccinesSaveLives pic.twitter.com/E8fuHTFVet
— GautengGov (@GautengProvince) August 25, 2021
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