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COVID-19 -- Papua New Guinea
Houriiyah Tegally, a bioinformatician at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, agrees that large-scale vaccine distribution should remain a top priority. She has tracked the dynamics of B.1.351 and seen how quickly new variants can spread. "We're kind of seeing Africa being left behind," Tegally says. "There needs to be higher attention paid to vaccinating the continent if we don't want worrying variants to evolve."
She and her colleagues -- led by Tulio de Oliveira, director of the

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