Covid-19 Business Watch
WATCH: ‘All our spike proteins in one basket’
Michael Avery talks to a panel about the delay in SA’s vaccine rollout
08 February 2021 - 15:14
Exactly one week since the one-million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute of India landed in the country, we are haunted by the phrase: “All our spike proteins in one basket”.
In a worrying development, SA’s vaccine rollout was dealt a blow at the weekend after new evidence emerged that AstraZeneca’s vaccine does not protect people against mild to moderate disease caused by the new variant detected in SA late in 2020...
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