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The First Minister was questioned by Express.co.uk during her daily coronavirus briefing today over whether Prince Charles was welcome to visit Birkhall, part of the Queens Balmoral estate in Scotland. Prince Charles has made the visit north of the border with the Duchess of Cornwall almost every year since 2015 and it is understood this year the couple had considered their options for celebrating Christmas north of the border.
A week ago, Bloomberg reported that SA was only likely to get a Covid-19 vaccine rolled out in earnest by mid-2021 and even then only for a select few. That created an outcry from the medical fraternity. In this episode of Inside Covid-19, we speak to Professor Francois Venter, a professor of medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, who has been pushing the government to share detailed plans for who will get vaccines. A former advisor on the government advisory panel, Professor Venter warns that the vaccine may not be administered en masse next year at all. We hear from one of the founders of the Great Barrington Declaration how we should manage Covid-19 until vaccines arrive. Dr Jay Battacharya spoke to BizNews in November. He is opposed to strict lockdown but is in favour of focused protection. He says lockdown is the single-biggest mistake in health policy in his life time but we should take protective measures – and this can include wearing masks, particularly if we are