Britain and South Africa announced a new health and science partnership yesterday to mark the second day of President Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit to London, the first such official guest hosted by King Charles III.
News24 reports that Britain announced a new set of research collaborations as Ramaphosa toured the Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research facility in Europe, and Kew Gardens, with Charles' brother, Edward.
British Foreign Minister James Cleverly said the partnerships, on areas such as vaccine manufacturing, genome sequencing and climate change, will "benefit us all".
He added: "The UK and South Africa have shown global leadership in joining together to protect people by preventing the spread of dangerous diseases, and by working to halt climate change."
Britain will support genome sequencing at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases, which played a key role in detecting Covid-19 variants such as Beta and Omicron, in a push improve antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Africa.
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