“The vaccine rollout has been far too slow. [On Tuesday] we did 170,000, which is a nice increase. But we need to do at least 300,000 a day, seven days a week, so we are still far from the target,” he said.
SA has so far vaccinated 3,819,730 and has a target of 40 million to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19.
Hill-Lewis said the key to achieving this is speed.
“The longer we take to vaccinate 40 million South Africans, the longer we will have to live with Covid-19, all the terrible loss of loved ones, and the terrible lockdowns. The delay is measured in lives lost.
“So we need to go as quickly as possible — nothing should be slowing us down. So it is frankly crazy that we are losing out on two whole days a week of vaccinating. It is literally crazy. Why would we do this? It doesn’t make any sense at all,” he said.