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A Professor at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform and Bioinformatician at UKZN has been unpacking the driving force behind the emergence of new Covid-19 variants.
A Professor at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform and Bioinformatician at UKZN has unpacked the driving force behind the emergence of new Covid-19 variants.
More travel bans could be expected for South Africa following the government’s decision to pause the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccines, according to experts, but placing more travel restrictions on South Africa will not do countries any good.
Saturday 30 January 2021 - 4:30pm
The World Health Organization says there s no evidence that a new Covid-19 variant called K4.1.7N leads to more severe disease or death but what experts do agree on is that the new variant is more transmissible. It s also said to pose a higher risk of reinfection. So what causes new variants and what impact do they have on vaccines? Courtesy #DStv403
JOHANNESBURG - More people must be vaccinated as quickly as possible if we are to minimise the chances of having another COVID-19 variant.
That s according to Professor Tulio de Oliveira from the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.