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    AN INJECTION OF HOPE

    Dec 04, 2020 5 minutes
    COMPILED BY LESEGO SEOKWANG

    IT’S being hailed as a saviour and a salvation in a year where close to 1,5 million people have died as a result of the deadliest pandemic the planet has seen since the Spanish flu in 1918 killed 50 million people.

    The discovery of a vaccine has been likened to the invention of the atomic bomb in terms of scientific importance – although unlike the atomic bomb, which unleashed death and destruction, this invention could well liberate the world and see a semblance of normalcy returning to the globe.

    The first breakthrough came when multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc and German biotechnology company BioNTech announced they had developed a vaccine with 90% efficacy – although they later upped it to more than 94%. Shortly afterwards, biotechnology company Moderna announced its vaccine candidate also had an efficacy of 94%.

    And then Oxford University in

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