President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to visit vaccination sites on Thursday to encourage citizens to get the jab as a study found seven in 10 South Africans had scant trust in the government’s ability to ensure that Covid-19 vaccines were safe.

BusinessLIVE reported, however, that the findings were in contrast to other surveys which reported higher levels of vaccine acceptance, ranging from 76% reported in the fifth round of the Nids-Cram survey and 67% reported by the Human Sciences Research Council Covid-19 Democracy survey conducted in December 2020 and January 2021.

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