It is alleged that the scientists have been working without the consent of their donors, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Things may well change, but for now, Dr Angelique Coetzee says there seem to be no serious symptoms being presented by patients with the Omicron variant.
President Ramaphosa said during his address last night that government has “set up a task team that will undertake broad consultations on making vaccination mandatory for specific activities and locations”.
Since the detection of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa, various countries have put travel restrictions in place.
Last week, the UK announced that South Africa would remain on its travel ‘red list’. The reasoning doesn’t hold up under basic scrutiny.
There’s a scheduled change for the UK’s “traffic light” system pending, and it could spell great news for South Africans who want to travel to and from the UK.
South Africa recorded 21 584 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, due in large part to the highly transmissible nature of the Delta variant.