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Wits SRC fears COVID-19 financial woes could see many students fail to return
The student representative council said that many students had lost their breadwinner to the coronavirus or had lost their income due to the lockdown...
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These include refunds for accommodation, catered student meals and other fees for the 2020 academic calendar.
Student leaders have rejected Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's proposal of a 4.7% university fee increment.
Last week, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande announced that he's proposed a 4.7% increase on university tuition fees for the 2021 academic year and a 6.7% hike on accomodation fees.
The Oxford University randomised control trial, being hosted by Wits University, was temporarily halted last week after a participant in the UK fell ill.
The experience of the Oxford vaccine and the measures put into place are not unusual. Many phase one and phase two clinical trials have holding rules.
As part of regulatory procedure, further vaccination of participants enrolled in the study has been halted after a volunteer in the UK fell ill.
This was one of the issues raised during a webinar commemorating one year since the rape and murder of 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana.
Wits University has this week started screening participants for its second vaccine efficacy trial.
The first potential vaccines were administered to some of the volunteers in the randomised trial a month ago. Others received a placebo.
A collaboration between Wits and the UK's Oxford University started four weeks ago and involves 2,000 participants between the ages of 18 and 65.
The National Income Dynamics Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey has found two thirds of the job losses were among women.
Wits University's principal investigator of the South African VIDA vaccine trial, Professor Shabir Madhi, said the availability of a vaccine was completely dependent on the clinical trial results.
Last Wednesday, the University of the Witwatersrand in partnership with Oxford University rolled out South Africa’s first clinical trial, which will consist of 2,000 volunteers.
Eyewitness News has interrogated statistics from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases over a period of three weeks until 21 June.
The trial subjects will come from hotspots where the risk of the coronavirus was the highest.
The university will begin trials for the first African COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
The institution said 2,000 people between the ages of 18 and 65 would be enrolled for the trial, which was expected to be run at multiple sites in South Africa.