Since the start of 2020 the country has paused its roll-out twice, swapped AstraZeneca jabs for Pfizer’s and Johnson & Johnson’s and now phase two has started
From today, people aged 60 years and older and some health workers will be vaccinated by June and everyone else by February 2022
But Big Pharma and the world trade body haven’t shifted on sharing vaccine intellectual property
Legally, the local government election must be held this year and the government hasn’t said why they wouldn’t go ahead, says the Electoral Commission of South Africa
The chief executive of the IEC, Sy Mamabolo, assured the Salga leaders assembly that the organisation would deliver a free and fair election.
The Covid-19 B.1.617 variant, first detected in India, is now listed as one of concern, but the World Health Organisation says it does not doubt the efficacy of global vaccines
Soon, South Africa will start with its mass vaccine roll-out. We take a look at what to expect when you get vaccinated.
The government is to decide whether travel restrictions will be implemented after variants originally from India and the UK were detected in South Africa.
The self-employed were nearly three times less likely to work during the hard lockdown, economists found
Scientists in South Africa say there’s no evidence that the B.1.617 is worse than our local variant