Pfizer, a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine production, has announced that South Africa will begin the production of its vaccine. Pfizer made the announcement on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Associated Press (AP) reported that the Biovac Institute, a pharmaceutical company in Cape Town, South Africa will be manufacturing the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine …
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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has made an urgent call for the provision of vaccines to slow down the spread of COVID-19 in Southern Africa. The organisation said healthcare workers have been struggling for vaccines since the new, more contagious strain of COVID-19 was discovered in Southern Africa, calling for a quick provision for …
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South African 17-year-old Sinoyolo was looking forward to becoming a man this year. His uncle had made arrangements for him to travel to the mountains overlooking the South African city of Port Elizabeth in December for his initiation. Known in the local Xhosa language as “Ukwaluko”, the secretive rite of passage marks a boy’s transition …
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More than 10,000 people have died from coronavirus in South Africa since the pandemic arrived the country in March, the health ministry said on Saturday. The continent’s most industrialised economy has registered 553,188 infections, more than half of the continental caseload, and the fifth largest number of COVID-19 cases in the world. The South African …
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South Africa is the hardest hit country in Africa with at least 521,318 infections of COVID-19 and so far accounting for more than half the continent’s cases. AFP news agency reported that some 24,000 health workers in South Africa had contracted the coronavirus, including 181 who had died since the pandemic hit the country in …
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South Africa’s unemployment rate rose by one percentage point to 30.1 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the final three months of 2019, official data showed Tuesday. AFP news agency gathered that the new data is a far cry from what analysts expected to be the ultimate fallout from the coronavirus …
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