How Africa’s entrepreneurs are handling the continent’s challenges: new book
I carried out a little exercise on Google. I searched “Africa”, and then “African countries”. Top among the 3.4 billion
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SARS-CoV-2
T-cells: the superheroes in the battle against omicron
OMICRON is spreading rapidly throughout the world, with experts claiming that 40% of the global population will be infected within
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EXPLAINER: What we know about the new COVID-19 variant
ALEXANDER WINNING and ALISTAIR SMOUT AUTHORITIES around the world have reacted with alarm to a new coronavirus variant detected in
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The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found and what we know sofar
SINCE early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa has been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2.
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COVID: new antibody treatment could offer up to 18 months’ protection against severe disease
A new treatment could soon help protect people from developing severe COVID. AstraZeneca has just released results from a phase
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Keep the politics out of scientific pursuit for COVID-19 origin
ABBEY MAKOE LEADING political elites in South Africa have joined a chorus of global scientists by expressing public support for
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COVID-19 herd immunity? It’s not going to happen, so what next?
ANY notion that COVID-19 was going to last for just a few months was very much misplaced in 2020. Especially
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Hard-won gains at risk as Delta variant spreads- WHO
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY and MICHAEL SHIELDS THE world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting COVID-19 as the highly
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Call for new COVID-19 origins
A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and
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As WHO highlights COVID animal origins, China wildlife crackdown needs more teeth – experts
DAVID STANWAY CHINA and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that
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