Thu 25 March 2021: Coronavirus cases continued to rise around the world for a fourth consecutive week, with around 3.3 million new cases reported in the past seven-day period, according to the UN health agency. The number of new deaths from the coronavirus leveled off after a six-week decrease, with just over 60,000 new deaths […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: The COVID-19 Sisonke vaccination roll out programme has been extended to 54 vaccine sites across the country, Acting Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, announced on Thursday. Briefing the media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, Ntshavheni said the programme has to date vaccinated more than 207 […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: The South African Health Department has confirmed that Professor Salim Abdool Karim has stepped down from the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19, with effect from 23 March 2021. His resignation is exactly one year since he chaired the committee. Abdool Karim led a team of top scientists, who have been […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Pfizer seeks to expand its vaccines business and become a leader in gene-based technologies beyond its partnership with Germany’s BioNTech through which it delivered the coronavirus shots, Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Pfizer scientists have gained a decade’s worth of […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Boris Johnson claimed the UK’s vaccine breakthrough was brought about by ‘giant corporations that wanted to give good returns to shareholders’. But nothing could be further from the truth. On the anniversary of the United Kingdom’s first lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, as candles were lit in doorways and the country […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Research has shown that Africa experienced a 30 percent rise in infections in its second wave of coronavirus last year but implemented fewer public health measures than in the first. Writing in The Lancet medical journal, researchers said a loosening of public health measures such as distancing and intermittent lockdowns probably […]
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Wed 24 March 2021: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement that she supports discussions about a possible new Special Drawing Rights allocation of $650 billion to support the global recovery from the novel coronavirus pandemic. “I intend to present by June a formal proposal to the Executive board to […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: COVID-19 can be diagnosed in 55 minutes or less with the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads and a diagnostic tool that plugs into an off-the-shelf cellphone, according to Rice University engineers. Mechanical engineer Peter Lillehoj has developed a stamp-sized microfluidic chip that measures the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein, a biomarker for […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: The World Health Organization blasted the growing gap between the number of vaccines administered in rich and poor countries, branding it a “moral outrage.” World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday lashed out and expressed serious displeasure at the growing gap in the number of COVID vaccines administered in rich and poor […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: At least one in three patients hospitalised with Covid-19 suffer long-term health issues including multiple organ problems and deteriorated mental health, according to a review of studies looking at the lasting impact of the disease. Published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday, the review looked at the frequency of symptoms […]
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