{"id":1921,"date":"2020-06-23T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wordpress21\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:00:40","slug":"announcement-of-south-africas-first-covid-19-vaccine-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/articles\/announcement-of-south-africas-first-covid-19-vaccine-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of South Africa&#8217;s first Covid 19 vaccine trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:1200px;--awb-max-height:675px;--awb-align-self:flex-start;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QnGqQx-EA4g?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0&amp;rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two text-cap\" style=\"--awb-font-size:22px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;--fontSize:22;line-height:1.15;\"><p class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Announcement of South Africa&#8217;s first Covid 19 vaccine trial<\/p><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Professor Shabir Madhi, Professor in Vaccinology at Wits University, and the Director of the South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit at Wits, announces the start of the first clinical trials for a Covid 19 vaccine in South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QnGqQx-EA4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wits University OFFICIAL YouTube Channel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12,13,34],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-covid-19","tag-vaccine-coverage","tag-vaccine-rollout","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}