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Africa we are seeing cases continuing to rise. tell me why? because during the first wave, if you like, the pandemic around the world, it seemed, didn't it, that a lot of countries in africa did not get hit as badly as many of those countries, let's say, in europe, for example, or latin america. yes, i think that was an interesting situation earlier on and was puzzling for many people because to be quite honest, people really thought that that would be the seat of the epidemic but fortunately for most of sub—saharan africa, they managed to move through that time relatively well. i think what...

“Estamos constantemente pendientes a las variantes del virus. Afortunadamente, no hemos visto un aumento significativo que nos lleve a tomar restricciones drásticas, sino reafirmar la necesidad de que los residentes en Puerto Rico se vacunen. El pueblo debe sentirse tranquilo que el equipo de epidemiología del Departamento de Salud está monitoreando los casos para que sean tratados de forma efectiva”, aseguró el secretario de Salud, Carlos Mellado López. El Titular aprovechó el momento para  hacer un llamado a la vacunación. “La vacuna ha demostrado ser segura y eficaz para prev...

Has to be intensified because as i said before, i'm very concerned that with the delta variant and the beta variant, we may end up having a very toxic cocktail. all right. let's just clear up a tiny little bit of science first. you are the first scientist who confirmed the first case of coronavirus in sub—saharan africa, and then you sequenced the virus�* genome within 72 hours. so just explain briefly what that meant. well, it meant a lot for africa simply because we went from a situation whereby we could not do this kind of work in africa to doing it at the speed of light, at a speed tha...

Of covid in africa and about 142,000 deaths, so which is it? well, it is definitely both. i think it is clear that africa has navigated the first two waves successfully, but now we're dealing with a new variant. we don't know exactly how this is going... i mean, the outcome of this new variant, you know, that is taking over. we are being told about stories of cases of patients that are presenting with more severe disease than the first two waves. and as such, you know, we need the vaccines. we need to work much harder. and surveillance in africa has to be intensified because as i said before, ...

Johannesburg, a city of 5 million, and the surrounding Gauteng province account for about 60 per cent of the country's new daily infections.