Scientists fear vaccines may not work against SA’s new coronavirus variant

UK experts hurrying to tweak vaccines, but say there is a ‘big question mark’ over whether the SA strand will respond

04 January 2021 - 18:32 By Kate Holton

Scientists are not fully confident that Covid-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in SA, the political editor of UK television station ITV said on Monday, citing an unidentified scientific adviser to the British government...

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