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Covid Cape Town Travel News – Issue #2

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.

What About Some Good News? Relatively Speaking

The latests trends are positive. How will it change? Keep in touch and let’s see.

Whatever COVID passport you may need we hope to see you back in Cape Town soon.