As the country proceeds with Phase 2 of the vaccine rollout plan, the government has still not addressed how undocumented people will register to receive the vaccine.
While some of the challenges experienced in South Africa's vaccine rollout programme can be attributed to external factors - including global shortages of the vaccine and the morally indefensible hoarding of vaccines by rich countries who could pay vaccine manufacturers in advance - the government's less than universal approach to health care further compromises the success of the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout programme.
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