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  TSHEPANG MOJI The University of the Witwatersrand has launched clinical trials for a potential vaccine against COVID-19, with two thousand South Africans volunteering to be given the vaccine. The set of vaccine trials are to be the first in South Africa and on the African continent, and the trial seeks to find the vaccine that will prevent people from being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease. Wits University is collaborating with the University of Oxford and the Oxford Jenner Institute on the trial. The vaccine that is to be used in South Africa is the same vaccine thatRead More →