SAPS vaccination process launched in SA
Minister Cele and General Sitole will form part of the first group of police officers and SAPS personnel, who will be vaccinated on the day.
THE South African Police Service (SAPS) will kick-off its vaccination roll out programme to start the inoculation of the country’s police officers today.
“Police Minister, General Bheki Cele together with the Acting Minister of Health, Mmamoloko Kubayi and the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Khehla Sitole will lead the SAPS Covid-19 vaccination launch,” said Lirandzu Themba, Police Ministry spokesperson.
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“Minister Cele and General Sitole will form part of the first group of police officers and SAPS personnel, who will be vaccinated on the day,” she added.
The SAPS plans to vaccinate over 180 000 employees at the 108 registered vaccination sites across the country, starting from 8 July.
This is part of government’s national Covid-19 vaccination programme to vaccinate the general population, frontline workers in the security cluster and occupational-health workplace services.
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