POLOKWANE –Â Vaccines save millions of lives each year and work by training and preparing the body’s natural defense, the immune system, to recognise and fight off viruses.
If the body is exposed to those disease-causing germs at a later stage, the body is immediately ready to destroy them, preventing illness.
This is what the newly discovered Covid-19 vaccine aims to do in order to help fight possible infections.
On Monday, 25 January, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country would soon receive its first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines from the Serum Institute in India, the world’s largest vaccine producer.
Bonus asked residents about their thoughts on the vaccine and whether or not they would be vaccinated:Â
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