Earlier this morning, 13 September 2021, Councillor Rob Quintas, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, accompanied the Western Cape MECs for Health and Transport, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo and Minister Daylin Mitchell on a vaccination drive at the Cape Town Station Deck.
This after the Western Cape Government Health Department reached out to the City to make the facility available for a pop-up vaccination drive to ensure maximum reach by bringing the vaccines to where people are – a move that will help us to reach herd immunity for life as we knew it to resume. This is vital for the people’s health and the economy of Cape Town.
The Station Deck, as it is commonly known, is one of the city’s busiest transport facilities. This facility situated in the heart of the Cape Town CBD accommodates thousands of commuters from suburbs from all over the city where they disembark or fetch minibus-taxis. Thus making it the ideal place for a pop-up vaccination site.
‘I am pleased to have been part of this morning’s vaccination drive. I was especially happy to assist as taxi drivers are at high risk of exposure, and also pose risk as carriers, and therefore having these ‘frontline’ persons vaccinated is in the interest of Cape Town commuters. We can achieve so much more when all spheres of government work together in deploying dedicated resources for targeted interventions. We couldn’t have picked a better place, where pedestrians, minibus-taxi operators and drivers, passengers, line marshals and informal vendors and workers were able to take advantage of this opportunity to get themselves vaccinated. These are people who wanted to be vaccinated but couldn’t get to the vaccination site due to their work schedules. But now we have brought the service to them, and this is what a caring City does,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Councillor Rob Quintas.
Source: City Of Cape Town