ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has pledged to take the Covid-19 vaccine once it arrives in Mzansi, despite several conspiracy theories about the vaccine and side effects.
On Monday, 18 January, Tutu publicly said he’d take the vaccine.
“Covid-19 has wreaked havoc. It has destroyed lives and livelihoods and has robbed us of the comfort of family and friends, but we can stop it. We have vaccines.
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“I join other world leaders in pledging to have the vaccine as soon as one becomes available to me.”
Tutu said vaccines eradicated terrible diseases such as smallpox, polio and measles, yet many were scared of the safe and effective way of protecting themselves against infectious diseases before even coming into contact with them.
“There’s nothing to fear. Vaccination uses your body’s natural defences to build resistance to infections. It makes your immune system stronger and because vaccines contain only killed or weakened forms of disease-causing viruses or bacteria, they don’t cause the disease or risk complications.”
He said the more people vaccinated against Covid-19, the more we were protected against the virus.
“This breaks the chain of transmission, but to do that properly, the majority of people in a community need to be vaccinated,” he said.
