South Africa has just started clinical trial of a vaccine against Covid-19, the first on the continent. The vaccine trial started on June 24 in Johannesburg, the commercial capital, and Pretoria, the national capital, in Gauteng province. South Africa remains the most affected country in Africa by the pandemic, with 140,000 detected cases of coronavirus and 2,500 deaths. The vaccine called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 is to be tested in 2,000 volunteers in South Africa. In South Africa, for example, the trial is to include 50 HIV-positive people.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 03, 2020 11:03 UTC