The Healthy Living Alliance calls for increase in sugar tax to fund COVID vaccine

The Healthy Living Alliance calls for increase in sugar tax to fund COVID vaccine

The Healthy Living Alliance calls for increase in sugar tax to fund COVID vaccine

The Healthy living alliance whose core mission is to empower South Africans to make healthy lifestyle choices is calling on the government and treasury to increase the Healthy promotion levy, otherwise, known as the sugar tax to 20 percent in order to prop up finances as the government seeks ways to fund the procurement of a vaccine. Lawrence Mbalati is a project manager at Heala and he joins us on Zoom. For more news, visit sabcnews.com and also #SABCNews #Coronavirus #COVID19News on Social Media.