Title:
Covid jab tech helps fight malaria
Author:
Chris Bateman
Published:
Mail & Guardian, 12 June 2021
From the article:
* A malaria vaccine with 77% efficacy in children from birth to five years old — the age group with the highest fatality rate worldwide — is in the early stages of human trials at Oxford University.
* In Mozambique, 9.3-million people contracted malaria in 2020 versus just 8 000 annually in South Africa, according to last year’s statistics from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). The government has recently extended the malaria elimination target date from 2023 to 2025.