About 17% of the population has been vaccinated against Covid-19. (Photo by Gallo Images/Misha Jordaan)

"This is not the time to wait and see."

This is the message Dr Clare Cutland, a scientific coordinator at the Wits University’s African Leadership in Vaccinology, has for people reluctant to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

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