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KRISP

https://www.krisp.org.za/
Last activity: 01.12.2021
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Location
Iceland
Employees
11-50

Mentions in press and media 13

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Nov 30, 2021Southern Africa is not a hotbed of variants — it’s just very good at sequencing and spotting themA 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, 20215 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, 2021A 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, 2021A 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, 2021A woman with HIV had the coronavirus for 216 days – and it mutated at least 30 timesA 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, 2021Vaccines may not work as well against the coronavirus variant detected in South Africa, so Moderna and Pfizer are upgrading their shotsA 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, 2021Vaccines may not work as well against Covid variant in SA, new research showsA 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, 2020When 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, 2020New 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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What has the press written about KRISP?

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).

Is KRISP still active?

Yes, KRISP is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 1, 2021.