Professor Tulio de Oliveira discusses vaccine testing at Wits

Professor Tulio de Oliveira discusses vaccine testing at Wits

Professor Tulio de Oliveira is the director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) at UKZN. He joins Darren, Keri, and Sky for another COVID-19 information session.

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Virus hunter and scientist Prof Oliviera is back to give us an update on all the new developments on Covid-19.

Darren Maule and Prof Oliviera discuss the massive numbers of positive cases we are seeing during Coronavirus pandemic. He also speaks on the number of positive cases in children and how it is spread to them. 

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Whilst the USA reached over 2-million cases and Brazil over a million, the promising news during this time is that the first Covid-19 vaccine trial in South Africa and Africa has begun.

He explains all this and more in the podcast below: 

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