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Nearly £50m in government funding is being made available today (23 September 2022) to support British industry develop fuel switching technologies.

501Y.V2 immunity  A preliminary study conducted by KRISP showed people previously infected with the new variant are immune from reinfection and possibly other circulating variants. The study involved a small number of people and is yet to be submitted for evaluation by the scientific community. Scientists said the plasma collected from people infected with the variant had “good neutralising activity”, including against “first wave” viruses and potentially other variants of concern. I...

Research shows people with new Covid-19 variant develop antibodies that offer protection By Chulumanco Mahamba Share Johannesburg - Scientists have discovered that people infected by the new Covid19 variant have developed antibodies that can offer protection from other variants. Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande and Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize jointly provided an update on the latest scientific results on the new variant of SARS-CoV-2, dubbed 501Y. V2. The ...

Nzimande vows to invest millions to allow SA scientists, pharmaceuticals to produce locally branded Covid-19 vaccine Share Johannesburg - Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande has vowed to invest millions to allow South African scientists and pharmaceuticals to produce a locally branded vaccine to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Nzimande said the planned investment would go ahead soon while his Science and Innovation Department was due next month, to conduct a feasib...

Local scientists will be updating information on the latest detected Covid-19 variant, called 501.Y.V2.

Vaccines have provided antibodies to some South Africans infected with Covid-19, helping them to fight against the potency of the virus, a study shows.

Investing R68 million towards Covid-19 research and development activities By Opinion Dr Blade Nzimande The Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation has been hard at work since the 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA) to implement what President Cyril Ramaphosa directed the department to do to change the lives of our people. As the minister, I am responsible for the Department of Higher Education and Training and the Department of Science and Innovation. We will continue with t...

The funding to the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Informatics Sequencing Platform (Krisp) will be used to understand the spread of Covid