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The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) held its 9th SAMRC Scientific Merit Awards recently to recognise excellence in health research. The Awards, which are among the most prestigious in the country are conferred upon individual researchers who have published work that has made grou.
Mashamba-Thompson says we must brace for more waves of infection to come. That reported amount of vaccine is not going to help us reach the herd-immunity required to help protect us. The spread will continue, and as we have already heard from the Health Minister, the vaccine is not a silver bullet.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africans should avoid the three Cs: closed spaces, crowded places, and close contact with others.
He warned against the new variant which is more infectious than the first identified strain of the virus. Emerging information suggests that this new variant does not cause more severe illness than the original variants, but it does put more pressure on the health system because the cases increase so rapidly and the hospitals get full more quickly.