After sluggish vaccine procurement and a delayed rollout, Africa's worst-hit country for Covid is now struggling with low take-up, particularly among men.
South Africa has passed the peak of a stubborn third infection wave driven by the Delta coronavirus variant, President Ramaphosa says.
The average number of daily new infections has been 29 percent lower over the past seven days than during the previous week, and 48 percent lower than the week before that.