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February 17, 2021
By Johan Horak

Covid Cape Town Travel News – Issue #2

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Cape Town Covid! Covid! Covid! The never-ending story.

It’s a tragedy. In the Mother City; Cape Town tourists are few. But Cape Town is still beautiful. Business is closing.

But you may agree that dark clouds always come with a silver lining. Or, “Behind the clouds the sun always shines”.

Today I want to share some Cape Town Covid news for travelers and tourists. And start with a few inspiring Covid quotes. I picked one, see below. The others you can read…

30 Incredible Quotes on Work and Life: COVID-19 Edition

Inspirational quotes on work and life, work from home, remote working, tackling Covid-19.

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Cape Town J&J ‘Vaccines will be pre-syringed tonight, vaccinators to start vaccinating by Wed’

The vaccinators took part in the Johnson & Johnson trial, says Sama’s Dr Angelique Coetzee, so no quarantine period is necessary. South Africa is one step closer to a vaccine rollout.

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Sometimes we question governments ability. And rightly so. Most are making mistakes. But listening to Andrew Cuomo blasting the USA Federal Government’s poor response where every Tom & Dick jump against each other to bid for PPE. The only winners were the Chinese sellers of PPE. Now reading Discovery’s news brief I get the feeling there are sensible businesses out there.

Discovery on sourcing Covid-19 vaccines privately – and why you can’t just skip the queue

Discovery chief executive Adrian Gore has outlined the company’s role in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa and dismissed some of the mistruths around the programme.

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SA’s AstraZeneca vaccines will be offered to other African countries as first J&J shots expected

South Africa “actually secured enough doses to vaccinate all the people who will need to be vaccinated”, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told a joint sitting of Parliament on Tuesday.

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Cape Town’s “Self Appointed” COVID Statistician

I suggest you flow Filippo Faralla for Cape Town stats on Covid. He is not affiliated to anyone – which I like. Check his post out and follow him.

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UCT Covid-19 vaccine trial could solve the growing problem of new variants of the virus

Interesting. The richest doctor in the world is South African. He is directly involved. Cape Town Covid – UCT researchers are expected to commence the phase one clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate, hAd5 T-cell, this month.

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Western Cape Covid-19 vaccine procurement: Winde set to meet with Sahpra

The Western Cape government will be meeting with the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) on Friday. During a digicon on Thursday, on the province’s Covid-19 numbers and vaccination rollout plan, Premier Alan Winde confirmed the meeting would take place.

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Third Covid-19 wave could strike Western Cape by May, says MEC

Hopefully herd immunity and vaccines will limit the impact: Cape Town – For the fourth consecutive week, Covid-19 cases across the Western Cape have declined but predictions of a third wave point to around May, leaving the provincial health department to caution residents to remain vigilant.

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Talking about herd immunity. Check what these tests show for the (skewed) population donating blood.

Coronavirus: South Africa’s COVID lockdown may have created ‘herd immunity’ | World News | Sky News

Strict controls to contain the virus may have actually accelerated its spread through heavily populated areas.

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The Russians are on us! The Russians are at it again. Cyber crackers. But Sputnik may be one of our vaccines….

Russian Covid-19 vaccine submitted for approval in South Africa: report

The Department of Health said on Tuesday (16 February) that the manufacturers of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine have submitted documentation to local regulator the…

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South Africa is getting a Covid-19 vaccine ‘ID system’ – how it will work

The South African government is currently in the process of developing an electronic vaccination data system (EVDS) to assist with the roll-out of Covid-19…

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Well. Well. Who knows. I think “natural” immunity due to already being millions already infected, and the start of COVID vaccinations the number of deaths will decline further.