South Africa will roll out the continent's first coronavirus vaccine trial this week, the university leading the pilot said Tuesday, as the country grapples
The vaccine, developed by the Oxford Jenner Institute, is already being evaluated in Britain, where 4,000 participants have signed up for the trial.
Brazil is planning its own pilot, while the United States is preparing to test another vaccine in a mass trial of up to 30,000 participants. But confinement measures are being gradually phased out to allow business to pick up and limit damage to an already ailing economy. "Our scientific estimation is that 60 to 70 percent of our population may be infected by coronavirus," the minister said at the launch on Tuesday, adding that hospitalisation rates remained lower than anticipated.
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