Vaccine arrival countdown – but will it be effective?
BY EARLY next week South Africa should receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, but the concern is how effective they will be against the South African variant of the disease.
For the last three months, the 501Y.V2 variant has been the driver behind the second Covid-19 wave that has ravaged the country.
It is slowly spreading across the globe, with the first reported case of the variant in the US announced on Thursday. Scientists are worried that the various vaccines being rolled out will not be as
