Answer to Question #230559 in English for Amanda Gambushe

Question

Search for news stories about the department of health in South Africa

1. Identify two public relations problems or issues that the department is facing according to the news stories.

Answer 1

The first issue is that the South African government in the recent month ramped up the Covid-19 vaccine drive, which was quite late as evidenced by the aggravating infection cases. Another issue is the most recent variant, which was Beta, also referred to as the 501.V2 or B.1.351 that is not easily prevented by the vaccine jabs. These are challenges that are crippling the vaccination processes and the dangers that the South African citizenry is exposed to.