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DR ZWELI MKHIZE

Don’t call it the ‘SA variant’, scientists and researchers plead

Top researchers say new variant could have begun in any country, and could appear in any country, and labelling it “the South African variant” was unjust and damaging A group of South African and international scientists have taken a…

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