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- South Africa: South Africa to pay $5.25 a dose for AstraZeneca vaccine from India’s SII
dailymaverick (Today) - JOHANNESBURG, Jan 21 (Reuters) - South Africa will pay $5.25 per dose for 1.5 million shots of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), a senior health...
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- South Africa: Vaccine Production in South Africa - How an Industry in Its Infancy Can Be Developed
Allafrica (Today) - [The Conversation Africa] The issue of vaccine production has become a topic of hot debate following the approval of treatments for COVID-19. In South Africa angry exchanges have been spurred...
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- New variant may be ‘vaccine-resistant in half of cases’ – but there’s no need to panic…
Thesouthafrican (Today) - Research published by the NICD has described the new variant of COVID-19 found in SA as 'problematic' - but any setback to the vaccine can be handled....
- ANALYSIS: The Covid-19 vaccine roll-out must be accompanied by full transparency
dailymaverick (Yesterday) - With an apparent decline in new Covid-19 infections and the implementation of millions of vaccines on the horizon, one would have thought that frustration and despair would be replaced by...
- OP-ED: Vaccine nationalism and migration: Implications for the (mis)management of Covid-19 in South Africa
dailymaverick (Yesterday) - As countries begin to roll out Covid-19 vaccination programmes, principles of global health must be at the fore: equity in access will lead to equity in health for all. There...
- Vaccine tax hike: Ramaphosa breaks his silence on ‘fiscus raid’
Thesouthafrican (2 days ago) - Cyril Ramaphosa has stated that financing the vaccine 'will not be an issue' on Tuesday, failing to rule out the rapid introduction of a new tax hike....
- South Africa: Higher Education Dept Puts U.S.$4.7 Million Into Covid-19 Research, Vaccine Development
Allafrica (2 days ago) - [Daily Maverick] The Department of Higher Education has invested more than R68m into Covid-19 research and vaccine development. A further R25m has been allocated to the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and...
- Is the new variant vaccine-resistant? Here’s what Professor Karim thinks
Thesouthafrican (2 days ago) - As we gear up for a historic vaccine rollout, we want to know how effective it will be against the new variant. Here’s what you need to know....
- Newsdeck: Nigeria requests 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from African Union
dailymaverick (3 days ago) - ABUJA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria has written to the African Union to request 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to supplement the COVAX programme and has allocated $26 million for...
- Blade Nzimande quashes COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
Thesouthafrican (3 days ago) - Blade Nzimande bashed 5G conspiracy theories regarding the coronavirus vaccine, adding the panel will elaborate on this further....