SA testing vaccines on Covid-19 variant amid concern they will be less effective
The variant has driven a resurgence in infections in SA
10 January 2021 - 16:49
SA scientists are testing whether vaccines will be less effective against a Covid-19 variant first detected locally and hope for initial results within two weeks, a professor at the national communicable disease institute said.
The variant, known as 501Y.V2, was identified by SA genomics experts late in 2020 and is thought to be more contagious than older variants...
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