New Covid-19 vaccine is “highly effective”

Focus on Africa hears from Dr Lee Fairlie, who has been involved with vaccine trials at the University of Wits Reproductive Health Institute in South Africa. How do the different potential Covid-19 vaccines compare, and which one is the most appropriate for use in Africa?

Plus, we get the latest on fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The United Nations has called for protection for more than half a million people trapped in the city of Mekelle, which the military has said it plans to encircle.

And DJ Edu meets Busiswa, one of the stars of South Africa’s house music scene.

(Photo: The University of Oxford has been developing a Covid-19 vaccine with AstraZeneca; Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)