I am nervous because me and needles are not friends at all,” said Stuurman. I decided to come today because it is important to do this. “I had a lot of family members who died from COVID‑19. My colleagues in my office where I work are actually all vaccinated already.”Ī friendly team at the vaccination site guided UCT workers through screening, vaccine registration checks, and then to a waiting area spaced out to social distance protocols.įees Office customer liaison assistant Nthabiseng Stuurman said she was scared but death close to her led to the decision to be vaccinated. “I am in contact with students and lecturers, so it is obviously going to give me peace of mind that I don’t have to feel that I am under that much stress anymore. Within her current role at the university, Dykes needs to go into work every day. I’m also a mother of kids, so for me, there is no other option – I need to get vaccinated.” “If you just look at the number of people that are dying, and when you are faced with that every day, the choice is very simple. “I come from a coloured, Christian community and there is a huge cohort of people who don’t feel the vaccine is the way to go … You hear stories and you watch videos about people having strange reactions, so obviously that puts a little bit of doubt in your mind,” she said. She described the weeks building up to this moment as a stressful time, during which many people died. What most of the recipients agreed was that they were doing this for their safety, the safety of their families and those around them and to improve their working lives.Ĭandice Dykes, 37, is an administrator at UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences and comes into contact with students and academic staff daily. Some were nervous, scared and doubtful while others were unfazed by needles or vaccine rumours. Each recipient received a ticket number at the vaccination site.Īmid an atmosphere of slight nerves, staff members took ticket numbers and proceeded to allocated cubicles to receive the long‑awaited jabs. Although it was a large gathering, air flow in the hall, sanitisers and masks were the order of the day. UCT provided Jammie Shuttle transportation to the Pinelands EMS site every 30 minutes on 2 and 3 August.Ĭoincidentally, these workers were being vaccinated next door to the Biovac Institute, which is set to start manufacturing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine later this year.Ī friendly team at the vaccination site guided the university workers through screening, vaccine registration checks, and then to a waiting area spaced out to social distance protocols.
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