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Articles on Covid-19 Africa

April 18, 2022

As COVID hit Kenya and South Africa, race and class fears were amplified on Twitter

Job Mwaura, University of Cape Town and Ufuoma Akpojivi, University of the Witwatersrand

Online rage towards white communities and privileged classes can be read as fatigue with the postcolonial state.

March 7, 2022

Simone Richardson, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Penny Moore, University of the Witwatersrand

Instead of focusing on new variant-specific vaccines, the emphasis should be on deploying existing vaccines as fast as possible to as many people.

August 31, 2021

Wolfgang Preiser, Stellenbosch University; Cathrine Scheepers, University of the Witwatersrand; Jinal Bhiman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Marietjie Venter, University of Pretoria; Penny Moore, University of the Witwatersrand, and Tulio de Oliveira, University of KwaZulu-Natal

We are being cautious about the implications for vaccine efficacy and transmissibility while we gather more data to understand this lineage.

July 15, 2021

Ozayr Patel, The Conversation

The deaths have important symbolic value and have been associated with shifts in COVID-19 policies in some countries.

Penny Moore
Research Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, CAPRISA Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
Jinal Bhiman
Principal Medical Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Simone Richardson
Senior scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Ufuoma Akpojivi
Policy, Research and Learning Lead, University of the Witwatersrand
Job Mwaura
Research Associate, Ludwig Maxmilians University (Munich), University of the Witwatersrand
Marietjie Venter
Head: Zoonotic, Arbo and Respiratory Virus Programme, Professor, Department Medical Virology, University of Pretoria
Adrian Puren
Acting executive director, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Tulio de Oliveira
Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Plaform (KRISP)., Stellenbosch University
Jean-Benoit Falisse
Senior lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Cathrine Scheepers
Senior Medical Scientist, University of the Witwatersrand
Wolfgang Preiser
Head: Division of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University