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PRO/EDR> COVID-19 update (55): vaccines, variants, WHO, global
COVID-19 -- South AfricaSouth Africa recently received 1 million doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine and was poised to start vaccinating healthcare workers, but yesterday [7 Feb 2021], health officials announced a pause for the rollout to investigate early findings that it offered little protection against mild-to-moderate disease caused by variant 501Y.V2, lineage B.1.351 that's dominant in the country.New questions about the vaccine come as World Health Organization (WHO) advisers this Read more [...]
