South Africa will get 2-million doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the COVAX vaccine distribution scheme co-led by the World Health Organization and an African Union (AU) arrangement by March, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.

"We have secured 12-million doses in total from the global COVAX facility, which has indicated that it will release approximately 2-million doses by March," Ramaphosa said in a televised address to the nation.