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Added on the 25/01/2021 16:51:51 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Residents of Pretoria get vaccinated against Covid-19, as South Africa struggles with a third wave of infections. The country, the worst affected by the pandemic in Africa, has seen the daily figures for new cases double over the past two weeks, while hospital admissions have climbed by nearly 60 percent over the same period. IMAGES
South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, 89, receives Covid-19 vaccine as the country starts its immunization campaign for people over 60 years old. IMAGES
South Africa has taken delivery of its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines. President Cyril Ramaphosa watches as the batch of one million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is offloaded at the OR Tambo International Airport outside Johannesburg. IMAGES
Passengers walk in a terminal at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands after authorities test whether 61 passengers who tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving from South Africa have the new Omicron strain. IMAGES
British national David Good, who has been on holiday in South Africa for a fortnight and hopes to get home before the UK travel ban takes effect, says that Covid-19 is "very serious,". But Good adds: "we're always going to have new variants, so I don't know how we're going to keep locking down every time we find a new variant." South African tour operators are flooded with cancellations after countries follow Britain's decision to ban travel from the region over the discovery of a new coronavirus variant. SOUNDBITE
Police Minister Bheki Cele, and several members of the police force, receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccination against Covid-19, as South Africa faces mounting infections taking the countries new cumulative total past two million. IMAGES
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