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‘The COVID Vaccine and YOU’

03 September 2021 | Story Burneline Kaars

The University of the Free State invites students and staff to a webinar titled, ‘The COVID vaccine and YOU’. Dr Samantha Potgieter, infectious disease expert at the Universitas Academic Hospital and affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine, will answer questions from staff about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it affects them. The webinar will address questions such as the following:

• what vaccination is and how it works

• how vaccines are developed and how we know they are safe and effective

• how the COVID-19 vaccine works and how it can protect you

• the side effects of the vaccine

• the risks vs benefits of the vaccine.

You can also forward questions prior to the webinar to grimbeekl@ufs.ac.za

Date: Friday 10 September 2021

Time: 11:00-12:00

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Association for academic and non-fiction authors established

2006-09-26

The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors' Association of South Africa (ANFASA) approved the establishment of a Free State branch in Bloemfontein. ANFASA aims to give voice to the interests and concerns of all academic and non-fiction authors. The task team that serves as planning and advisory body is from the left: Mr Sandile Ngidi (author, translator and literary agent), Prof Louis Venter (professor-consultant in academic writing and head of the University of the Free State's Unit for the Development of Rhetorical and Academic Writing), Ms Monica Seeber (Director of ANFASA) and Mr Winston Mohapi (prize-winning author, translator en member of the Sesotho Literature Association).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

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