Tue 10 May 2022: Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, says while 70% of the population has come into contact with COVID-19 – and have some form of immunity – the best form of defense against the disease remains vaccination. Phaahla said this when he tabled the department’s budget vote before a mini-plenary of the National […]
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Mon 09 May 2022: Why is the country keeping itself isolated from the world? While the rest of the world is trying to manage how to live with the coronavirus, China continues with its ‘zero COVID’ policy, forcing people into strict lockdowns. But why is the country keeping itself isolated from the world, and how […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: The Pakistani government has rejected the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on number of COVID-19 deaths in the country, questioning the United Nations body’s methodology to collect data and supposing an error in the software used to collate the numbers. In a recent report, the WHO estimated there were 260,000 COVID-19 […]
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Fri 06 May 2022: South Africa has recorded 9757 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 818 125. According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a 25.9% positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng, which accounts for 44%, […]
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Thu 05 May 2022: The Department of Health says it would like to bring to the public’s attention an error in a media statement issued on Wednesday regarding the removal of face mask wearing by children at school. “The department would also like to bring to the public attention of the confusion created by unfortunate […]
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Thu 05 May 2022: South Africa has recorded 6 170 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 808 368. The increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate. The Department of Health has reported 30 deaths and of these, two occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This, according to the […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: A pair of new omicron subvariants has emerged, raising the possibility that survivors of earlier omicron strains can get reinfected. BA.4 and BA.5 have gained increasing attention in South Africa as weekly coronavirus cases tripled in the last two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. “It really came out of the blue over the weekend. We were […]
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Tue 03 May 2022: Danish health officials say that 1.1 million excess COVID-19 vaccines will be discarded in the coming weeks because their expiration date is near, and efforts to donate them to developing countries have failed. Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a government agency that maps the spread of infectious diseases including COVID-19 in Denmark, […]
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Mon 02 May 2022: No one can be forced to take the vaccine, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision on India’s Covid vaccine policy, also directing the central government to publish reports on the adverse effects of vaccination. “Bodily integrity is protected under the law and nobody can be forced to be […]
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Sat 30 April 2022: The unthinkable just a few months ago has already occurred: a country has stopped its program of vaccination against COVID-19 due to the low infection rate throughout the last few weeks. Denmark, with this decision, becomes the first country in the world to pause its vaccination plan. “Spring has arrived, vaccine coverage in the Danish population is high, and the epidemic […]
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