Jon CohenScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.Another COVID-19 vaccine has run into trouble in South Africa, showing less protection there than elsewhere because a SARS-CoV-2 variant that can apparently dodge key antibodies has become widespread.

In the wake of the new finding, the country, which had pinned its pandemic hopes on this particular vaccine, halted an immunization campaign launched only last week.The stakes are high for the vaccine globally because its makers, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, hope it will be widely used in developing countries; they project they can produce 3 billion doses this year for around $3 each, far more product at a far less lower price than any other.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
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