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‘Big question mark’: UK scientist on Covid-19 vaccine efficacy against South African variant – Hindustan Times
The South African variant of the novel coronavirus was first identified in Nelson Mandela Bay in samples dating back to the beginning of October 2020, and the variant…
As the United Kingdom on Monday rolled out the second vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), a leading Oxford scientist said that there was a “big question mark” around the effectiveness of vaccines on the South African variant of SARS-CoV-2. The new Covid-19 strain, named 20C/501Y.V2, has caused a rapid surge in the coronavirus cases in South Africa and two cases of the variant were also discovered in the UK on December 23.
Sir John Bell, an Oxford professor working with the UK government…
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