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Lessons learnt from Mxit help app sign up to fight Covid-19

Andrew Davies, who learnt good lessons after losing $55m with Mxit, has come up with an app to gather coronavirus data.

The health department painted a bleak picture of how, because of vaccine hesitancy, it was struggling to use up all the vaccines the country had secured. Stock photo.
The health department painted a bleak picture of how, because of vaccine hesitancy, it was struggling to use up all the vaccines the country had secured. Stock photo. (Jozef Polc/123rf.com)

Andrew Davies, who learnt good lessons after losing $55m with Mxit, has come up with an app to gather coronavirus data. 

It cuts the number of caretakers required per patient from 14 to four - and ​it's being tested in SA hospitals.

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