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Africa’s role in local covid vaccine production stressed during WHO visit

The importance of building local vaccine production capacity for the African continent has been stressed during a high level visit of World Health Organization (WHO) officials. WHO Director General Doctor Tedros Ghebreyesus and Health Minister Joe Phaahla, along with other delegates, visited Stellenbosch University’s Biomedical Research Institute on Friday afternoon.[…]

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SA records 116 new covid-19 cases

South Africa’s COVID-19 positivity rate remains low at zero-point-seven percent. The Health department recorded 116 new cases in the past 24 hours and a further 20 deaths. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng at 33 percent, followed by KwaZulu-Natal which accounts for 20 percent. At over 5800, the[…]

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SA’s Covid-19 positivity rate remains below 1%

South Africa’s Covid-19 positivity rate has remained 0.8%. This is good news for the country, and shows that the coronavirus pandemic is currently under control. For the second day in a row, the country recorded less than 200 new infections. The number of daily recorded deaths have also remained relatively[…]

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