The coronavirus variant discovered in SA may evade the protection provided by Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel has found, though its prevalence in the country is very low and the research has not been peer reviewed. According to Timeslive, the study compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for Covid-19, 14 days or more after they received one or two doses of the vaccine, against the same number of unvaccinated patients with the disease.

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Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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The minister of health, Dr. Zweli Mkhize says another 931 new cases of the coronavirus have been reported over the the latest 24-hour monitoring period. At the same time, 66 people have died of the respiratory illness, taking the death toll to 53 322. At the moment, there are more than 21 000 active cases of the virus in the country, of which more than 5 000 are in Kwa-Zulu-Natal followed by the Western Cape, with more than 4 900 cases.

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