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Vulnerable but overlooked: the Covid-19 vaccine plight of people with disabilities in South Africa

Source Daily Maverick
Authors T. HartN. Bohler-MullerT. Wentzel
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
OUTPUT TYPE: Newspaper article
Print HSRC Library: shelf number 12055
handle 20.500.11910/16128
At least 12%, and possibly as much as 20%, of South Africa's population experience activity limitations. Limitations include a spectrum of disabilities such as complete or partial immobility, restricted communication, sensory deprivation and psychosocial and neurological complications. And yet there is as yet no urgency to roll out vaccinations to them.