South African researchers making giant strides in fight against Covid-19

UWC and Stellenbosch University (SU) collaborated on research to develop the Sars-CoV-2 strain in a laboratory.

This while a spin-off company of the Biopharming Research Unit at UCT used plants to produce antigens and antibodies required for rapid diagnostic Covid-19 test kits.

South Africa obtained its first isolation of Sars-CoV-2 with collaborative efforts from UWC and SU last month. It does not confirm whether the virus was able to cause infection, said Tasnim Suliman, a postdoctoral research fellow working under Shaw.

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