Pfizer’s Covid vaccine still works against the South African and Brazilian variants of the virus, studies suggested today. The jab prevented 100 per cent of infections in a study run by Pfizer in South Africa and UK lab tests on the P1 Brazilian strain of the virus found it worked against that. Scientists had been … Read more
New York health officials are worried that some coronavirus variants will reinfect people who have had COVID-19 before. At a press conference on Tuesday, Dr Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said that reinfection appears to be rare. However, he noted that the coronavirus variants that were first identified in South Africa and Brazil have … Read more
The Great Oxidation Event that saw oxygen levels surge and life flourish on Earth happened 100 million years later than previously thoughts, researchers claim. University of Leeds experts analysed rocks from South Africa that were deposited in the ocean at the time of the Great Oxidation Event more than two billion years ago. This event … Read more
A British expat has discovered hundreds of stranded ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish washed up on a beach in South Africa. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish are each armed with a poison more deadly than cyanide. Tess Gridley, a scientist from Sheffield, encountered the mass stranding at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, while walking with her family. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish, … Read more
A British expat has discovered hundreds of stranded ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish washed up on a beach in South Africa. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish are each armed with a poison more deadly than cyanide. Tess Gridley, a scientist from Sheffield, encountered the mass stranding at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, while walking with her family. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish, … Read more
British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa is BACK ON with organisers ploughing ahead with games likely behind closed doors despite Covid variant fears, after the Government refuse to financially back home Tests The British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa is set to go ahead this summer The Lions are set to … Read more
South African apartheid-era president FW de Klerk is diagnosed with cancer Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, has cancer His foundation announced the news Friday, a day after his 85th birthday His heath is not in ‘immediate’ danger and he is undergoing treatment De Klerk released Mandela from jail and helped oversee … Read more
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that dictated the social structure in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 until the early 1990s, after white South Africans voted to abolish it in a referendum on March 17, 1992 after decades of racial struggles. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political … Read more
Matt Hancock last night hailed the Novavax vaccination’s 86.3 per cent effectiveness against the Kent strain of Covid-19. The Health Secretary confirmed the UK has 60 million doses of the jab, developed in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on order ahead of its approval by the medicines regulator. He said: ‘Really encouraging results from Novavax tonight on its efficacy against variants. ‘We’ve … Read more
Matt Hancock last night hailed the Novavax vaccination’s 86.3 per cent effectiveness against the Kent strain of Covid-19. The Health Secretary confirmed the UK has 60 million doses of the jab, developed in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on order ahead of its approval by the medicines regulator. He said: ‘Really encouraging results from Novavax tonight on its efficacy against variants. ‘We’ve … Read more