Rich countries of the world
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Desmond
The prohibition of travel is not informed by science, nor will it be effective in preventing the spread of this variant. The only thing the prohibition on trav…
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Disaster management act
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Desmond
We will closely monitor infection rates and hospitalisation over the coming days and will review the situation in another week. We will then need to determine …
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Mass gatherings such as conferences
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Desmond
Mass gatherings such as major conferences and meetings, especially those that require a large number of people to be in close contact over extended periods, sh…
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Health workers in hospitals
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Desmond
Health care workers in the Sisonke trial, many of whom who were vaccinated more than six months ago, are being offered Johnson & Johnson booster doses. Pfi…
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Adult population in South Africa
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Desmond
Since we launched our public vaccination programme in May 2021, over 25 million vaccines doses have been administered in South Africa. This is a remarkable ach…
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Sudden rise of infections
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Desmond
There are still a number of things about the variant that we do not know, and that scientists in South Africa and elsewhere in the world are still hard at work…
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Scientist identified new variant
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Desmond
Fellow South Africans, Earlier this week, our scientists identified a new variant of the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease. The World Health Organiz…
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