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title: "Video: How a truck is helping people in rural areas get registered for vaccination"
description: "Unicef is helping people to register on the South African government’s Electronic Vaccination Data System."
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published: "2021-06-10T17:57:08"
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# Video: How a truck is helping people in rural areas get registered for vaccination

> Unicef is helping people to register on the South African government’s Electronic Vaccination Data System.

By Ashraf Hendricks and GroundUp Staff · Published 10 June 2021, 19:57 SAST

## Content

*First published by*[*GroundUp*](https://www.groundup.org.za/article/how-truck-helping-people-rural-areas-get-vaccinated/)*.*

To help people in a rural Western Cape area get vaccinated against Covid-19, Unicef is using a truck to register people on the government’s Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS). The truck is also raising vaccine awareness.

When this video was shot fewer than half of people over 60 in South Africa were registered on the government system.

While this is a great initiative, it does raise the question: why not simply vaccinate people at the same time as registering them?

[YouTube video: "YouTube video player"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ddZ_ijB7JE)

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