Faizel Patel – 03/02/2021
Health Minister Dr Zwelki Mkhize has officially launched the Electronic Vaccine Data System (EVDS) Self- Registration Portal.
Mkhize has invited all health workers, clinical and non-clinical, from both the private and public sectors to join more than 340,000 of their colleagues who have already registered for inoculation on the system.
Mkhize says the system has been developed to ensure that the country lays a solid foundations for digital health information systems that inform the right national policies and interventions.
He says this is the beginning of a complete vaccination health information system from registration to certification.
“The system can capture the relevant metrics of all South Africans that will be vaccinated; ensure vaccinees are contactable and alerted to optimize adherence to the regimen; and complete the certification process such that vaccine certificates are easy to obtain for vaccinees and authorities that may require the certification.”
Mkhize says it takes less than one megabyte and approximately 2 minutes to complete the registration process
Healthcare workers will be the first to be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine during the first of trhee phases.
The first batch of 1.5 million jabs from AstraZeneca touched down in South Africa on Monday
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