South Africa targets COVID-19 vaccines next month but deals not yet signed
ALEXANDER WINNING SOUTH Africa aims to get COVID-19 vaccines by next month but is still in talks with pharmaceutical companies and no deals have been signed yet, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said, amid growing criticism of the government's response. The country is battling a resurgence in coronavirus infections driven partly by a new variant called 501.V2. It has recorded more than 1 million infections, the most on the African continent, and more than 29,000 deaths. In an opinion piece published in major local news outlets on Saturday, a group of prominent health experts criticised the government for moving too…