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Covid 19 coronavirus: South Africa s mysterious second-wave turnaround
15 Mar, 2021 05:35 AM
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By: Ben Graham
It has been a matter of weeks since South Africa was on the verge of a disaster.
Experts had predicted chaos as a new variant of the coronavirus tore through the country of 60 million people at the start of the year, and doctors were bracing for the worst.
The strain which appeared to be reinfecting people who had recovered from a previous bout of Covid-19 and raised serious questions about an impending vaccination rollout was infecting nearly 22,000 people a day by the middle of January.
Irish, Dutch halt AstraZeneca jabs as Italy gets set for curbs
AstraZeneca became embroiled in a bitter row with European leaders earlier in the year when it announced it would not be able to supply the number of doses it had promised.
By Joe Stenson with AFP Bureaus
March 15, 2021 01:40 GMT
Ireland and the Netherlands on Sunday became the latest countries to suspend their rollouts of AstraZeneca jabs over concerns about post-jab blood clots despite the firm insisting there was no risk, as most Italians were bracing for a new round of restrictions.
Vaccinations are a key tool to end the worst of a pandemic that has killed more than 2.6 million people since it emerged in China in late 2019.