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| Nov 30, 2021 | Southern Africa is not a hotbed of variants — it’s just very good at sequencing and spotting them | A laboratory worker in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 5, 2021. Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images Scientists in South Africa were the first to raise alarm bells about Omicron, alerting the WHO last Wednesday. But that doesn’t necessaril... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | 5 reasons why SA should be removed from the UK’s red list, according to tourism group | (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images) South Africa remains on the United Kingdom’s red list, which restricts travel and requires returning British or Irish nationals to endure a 10-day quarantine at their own cost. This has had a devastating... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | A woman with HIV had the coronavirus for 216 days. The virus mutated at least 30 times inside her. | A woman, who is not related to this story, receiving a coronavirus vaccine in Johannesburg, South Africa. Matthew Martin Brink/Xinhua via Getty A woman living with HIV was found to carry the novel coronavirus for seven months, a new study s... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | A woman with HIV had the coronavirus for 216 days. The virus mutated at least 30 times inside her. | A woman, who is not related to this story, receiving a coronavirus vaccine in Johannesburg, South Africa. Matthew Martin Brink/Xinhua via Getty A woman living with HIV was found to carry the novel coronavirus for seven months, a new study s... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | A woman with HIV had the coronavirus for 216 days – and it mutated at least 30 times | A woman, who is not related to this story, receiving a coronavirus vaccine in Johannesburg. (Matthew Martin Brink/Xinhua via Getty) A South African woman living with HIV was found to carry the novel coronavirus for seven months, a new study... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Vaccines may not work as well against the coronavirus variant detected in South Africa, so Moderna and Pfizer are upgrading their shots | A volunteer receives an injection for a potential COVID-19 vaccine at the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa on June 28, 2020. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against ... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Vaccines may not work as well against Covid variant in SA, new research shows | A volunteer receives an injection for a potential COVID-19 vaccine at the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa on June 28, 2020. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective against ... |
| Dec 24, 2020 | When the coronavirus runs rampant, mutations and new strains are more likely. That may be what happened in the UK. | A woman stands a crosswalk in London, England, on October 15, 2020. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images A new, more transmissible coronavirus strain first detected in the UK is spreading worldwide. All viruses change over time. The more people a virus... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | New SA Covid variant: Vaccines should work, but further mutation could pose threat | (Getty) The new United Kingdom and South Africa variants of SARS-CoV-2 are different, but both make the virus more transmissible and both have more genetic variations than previously observed variants There is no evidence that the current m... |
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Parsers VC has collected 13 articles mentioning KRISP, among them “Southern Africa is not a hotbed of variants — it’s just very good at sequencing and spotting them” (Nov 30, 2021) and “5 reasons why SA should be removed from the UK’s red list, according to tourism group” (Sep 13, 2021).
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