CHANNEL AFRICA  |  AFRICAN DIALOGUE – Published Feb 10, 2021, 1PM

South Africa’s Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize, says that the roll-out of South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination programme will be tweaked to include an implementation study. This comes as research shows that the AstraZeneca vaccine has 22-percent efficacy in preventing mild to moderate cases of the COVID-19 501y.V2 strain. Last week – President Cyril Ramaphosa received one million doses of the British drug with hopes of rolling it out to health workers later this month.

To assist us with:

• Professor Lynn Morris from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases

• Professor Keertan Dheda is Head of the Division of Pulmonology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, and the Principal Investigator at the UCT Lung Institute trial site for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial.

• Emeritus Professor Guy Richards of critical care and pulmonology

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