News in South Africa 7th January: 1. Vaccines lower risk of dying to Omicron: Fully vaccinated individuals have 3.8 times lower risk of dying of the Omicron variant than non-vaccinated individuals. This is according to data by the Western Cape Department of Health, released in a digital briefing on Thursday, which showed the effectiveness of […]
News in South Africa 18th November: 1. Fourth Covid wave inevitable: South Africa, which has the most confirmed coronavirus cases on the continent, will likely be hit by a fourth wave of infections but its impact probably won’t be as severe as during earlier surges, new modelling prepared for the government shows. Sero-prevalence surveys and […]
