Announcement of South Africa's First Covid 19-Vaccine Trial
- Publisher:
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Publication Date:
- 24 June 2020
- Tags:
- South Africa, Coronavirus, Health and Medicine, Innovation, Science and Biotechnology
Professor Shabir Madhi, Professor in Vaccinology at Wits University, and the Director of the South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit at Wits, announces the start of the first clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa.
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