Covid-🇿🇦

When South Africa is the birthplace of at least two Covid-19 mutants—the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) and the Beta variant (B.1.351)—where gangs have often filled in the spaces the state has not filled, such as distributing soap, masks, food, and drugs, thus exposing the failure of the resources-rich nation to meet people’s basic needs.

What are the odds that presently WHO-approved vaccines are quasi-defenseless against the infectious and transmissible Covid-🇿🇦 variants?