President Cyril Ramaphosa remarked during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday evening that if he hadn’t received the vaccine before contracting COVID-19 in December 2021, he might not be standing on the podium at Cape Town City Hall today. Ramaphosa tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time since the virus initially arrived in South Africa in March 2020, and his second fight with the potentially fatal infection left him feeling sick. Ramaphosa expressed satisfaction with South Africa’s progress in the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, saying that 30 million doses had bee…

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