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Vaccinations opened this week for children between 12-and 17-years old.

South Africa’s ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19 vaccines also points out that some people with weaker immune responses may become re-infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, especially if their first infection happened during South Africa’s first wave, when the wild-type or original form of the virus was dominant. The antibodies that our bodies produce in response to the original SARS-CoV-2 variant do not necessarily protect us against infection by later variants such as the Beta (this variant was dominant during South Africa’s second wave) and Delta (the va...

"You know that there is something that can assist you, that can save more lives, but you can't access it — it's so painful," one unvaccinated African nurse told CBS News.

"You know that there is something that can assist you, that can save more lives, but you can't access it — it's so painful," one unvaccinated African nurse told CBS News.

South Africa is experiencing its third wave and more Covid-19 vaccine doses are expected to arrive in the country soon. Can the global supply keep up with demand? And what does this mean for the race between vaccines and variants? It’s questions such as these that journalists must help to she...