South Africa takes part in another Covid-19 vaccine trial
One of the first South African Oxford vaccine volunteer looks on as a medical worker injects him with the clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa.
Despite this ‘good news’, public health officials have warned that the danger posed by the Covid-19 virus is by no means diminishing.
Any laxness could result in either a second wave of infections, as has happened in numerous places around the world, or worse yet, the pandemic could become endemic and perennially persistent, meaning that it would in effect “never go away”.
South Africa’s new Covid-19 infections have been showing a steady downward trend, along with deaths, for at least a week, offering hope that the peak of the first wave of the pandemic has passed here.
The country has now enrolled in another Covid-19 vaccine test, with others expected, meaning that any proving to be safe and effective will certainly be available throughout Africa, once globally rolled out.
