South Africa halts its AstraZeneca vaccine rollout over local variant concerns ...Middle East

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South Africa is recalibrating its rollout of vaccinations against Covid-19 out of concerns that a local variant of the virus may be evading the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which the country had hoped would put it on the path to herd immunity.The government said on Sunday (Feb. 7) it would halt plans to begin vaccinating frontline healthcare workers with a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. The decision follows the publication of preliminary, limited studies by Oxford University suggesting the shot provides only minimal protection against mild to moderate infections from the variant, known as B.1.351 or 501Y.V2.Instead, South Africa’s government will pursue plans t

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