South Africa announces ‘vaccine passport’ plans, eases restrictions
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced plans to introduce COVID-19 “vaccine passports” amid widespread scepticism of the jab,
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Pfizer vaccine less effective against South African variant, study finds
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have found that the Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine is moderately less effective against the
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Battling COVID-19, South Africa prepares for first vaccines
Battling a COVID-19 resurgence driven by a more infectious variant, South Africa is preparing to roll out its first vaccines
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South Africa testing whether vaccines work against variant
Scientists in South Africa are urgently testing to see if the vaccines for COVID-19 will be effective against the country’s
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Hardest-hit China, South Korea count 767 new virus cases
As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a viral epidemic, with hundreds more cases reported Thursday in
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War-weakened South Sudan tries to prepare for Ebola
With the deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo now an international emergency , neighboring South Sudan and its war-weakened health system
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Half of all gun deaths occur in just SIX countries n Americas
Half of all gun deaths occur in just SIX countries – and they are all in North or South America Half
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