More and more, the global community is waking up to scientific research from our continent. It has had global ripple effect, shifting the narrative from research about Africa and Africans, to research by Africans for Africans and the rest of the world, writes Wim de Villiers.
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Head of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp), Tulio de Oliveira, said that he did not think that the new COVID-19 variant would cause much disruption in South Africa.
Claims that South Africa has recorded its first case of a highly-transmissible subvariant of Covid-19 are under investigation by the Department of Health. However, until it has more information, the department cannot confirm if a case has been recorded.