SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant - WikipediaOn 4 January 2021, UK newspaper The Telegraph reported that Oxford immunologist Sir John Bell believed there was "a big question mark" over the new South African variant's potential resistance to COVID-19 vaccines, raising fears that vaccines might not work as effectively on that variant strain.[24] The same day Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, comment
