SAHPRA and USP sign MOU to improve regulatory oversight for health...
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Protective gene variant against COVID-19 identified
An international metastudy led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet has identified a specific gene variant that protects against severe COVID-19 infection. The researchers managed...
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Omicron’s higher asymptomatic carriage linked to rapid spread, SA studies find
Preliminary findings from two clinical trials in South Africa suggest that the omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 may have a much...
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JnJ booster shown to be 85% effective against Covid-19 hospitalisation in...
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Journal slams ‘incompetent’ Facebook fact-checking over vaccine article
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British PM’s take on Omicron ‘alarmist’: SAMA chair
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Risk of infection higher, hospitalisation lower for those vaccinated: Omicron insights...
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Early hospital trends indicate that Covid-19’s 4th wave is less severe
Netcare CEO, Dr Richard Friedland says that
after more than three weeks following the discovery of the new Omicron variant
in South Africa, data across its...
Scientist adds words of caution on ‘weakening’ virus presumption
The presumption
arising out of early observations and host responses to the omicron virus that
viruses naturally evolve to become less pathogenic - or less virulent...
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