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IMF South Africa team leader Ana Lucía Coronel said that as a result of evolving Covid-19 variants, including Omicron, the country’s authorities had had to adapt mobility restrictions, affecting the country’s latest GDP figures.

Speaking at the first open dialogue on the establishment of the mRNA technology transfer hub in Africa, the director-general of the department of health in South Africa, Sandile Buthelezi, said the local manufacture of the Covid-19 vaccine was necessary to scale

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