White Adults Are Most Vaccine-Hesitant South Africans, Survey Shows
- Country is struggling to keep its immunization centers busy
- Overall 72% of South Africans want inoculations, survey shows
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Vaccine hesitancy is most pronounced among White adults in South Africa, which is struggling to keep immunization centers busy just three months into the rollout of its inoculation program, a survey showed.
Only 52% of White adults in the country are willing to get a Covid-19 shot, compared to three-quarters of their Black counterparts, researchers from the Human Sciences Research Council and the University of Johannesburg said in the highlights of a report due to be released on Wednesday.