Paddy Harper isn’t the only one who’s broke: everyone from Zuma to Luthuli House, never mind the chronically unemployed, is feeling the pinch these days
The scientific process is like a hamburger. By examining the quality of each ingredient, you can see how good the end product is. You wouldn’t want mouldy bread or wilted lettuce ruining a perfectly good meal — and similarly you don’t want bad science ruining what could otherwise be a perfectly good vaccine. We look at whether Sputnik V could make it onto the menu.
Russia’s COVID vaccine, Sputnik V, is plagued by a series of red flags and question marks surrounding its clinical trials and results. Here’s how the jab took a shortcut and created sceptics about its underlying science.
Hesitancy is this week’s theme: from white men who don’t want a jab, to Bushy Maape, who doesn’t seem all that keen on his new job
Previously, the government had said people aged between 18 and 35 years would be eligible to be vaccinated only from September
We ask the infectious diseases specialist 18 questions about the Covid-19 pandemic: from how to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will ever return to ‘normal’
The Covid jab might keep you out of hospital should you still get ill, but that does not invalidate other worries
Being fully vaccinated ‘makes you a little bit more comfortable in your skin’, says 61-year-old Elize Parker
Several vaccination sites were forced to a standstill on Monday, with healthcare workers unable to attend work because of limited public transport
Inequity in Covid vaccine access echoes mistakes from the HIV response. In the forty years since Aids was first identified, there have also been several lessons on how to contain a pandemic. Starting with equity and supporting health systems
We look at who can get a Covid vaccine under phase two of South Africa’s national roll-out, what happens when you walk into a site and how the cost of shots are covered
There will be no state of emergency, but authorities are working to bring instigators of the week’s violence to book, the president said on Friday night
The suspects in the fraudulent certificates case are alleged to have used social media to advertise their services
South Africa’s vaccine roll-out is happening – slowly. Only 3% of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated. KwaZulu-Natal is leading the pack with the Eastern Cape hot on its heels
The programme is slated begin on 19 July, the date on which most Covid-19 restrictions in the UK are set to be lifted
People at early childhood development are still fighting to get Covid-19 vaccinations
Government officials will now still have to wait like everyone else to receive their Covid jab, according to the health deputy director general
If you can look past the bad SuperSport suits and live-action heart attacks, the Euros offer a seductive glimpse of a post-pandemic world
Minister Lindiwe Zulu made wide-ranging announcements on Friday, including how early childhood development centres should operate under level-four lockdown
Two people who were vaccinated and then got Covid-19 have mixed feelings about getting the jab
The Covid-19 J&J and Pfizer vaccines remain effective in protecting against severe sickness and hospitalisation
South African residents who are 50 years and older can register to stand in line for a Covid-19 vaccine as of Thursday 1 July
The long wait to move early childhood development teachers to the department of basic education will be over in nine months, but this does not mean all of them are yet in line to be vaccinated
The country needs to ensure that they use the 4 million doses of vaccines they have in the space of the next two weeks, and not two months
For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs
Having taken on the form of a spectral apparition, many of us have stopped watching Cyril Ramaphosa’s speeches
Minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously – and with good reason, given the medical profession’s history of inhumanity. But, by blaming low Covid-19 vaccination rates on vaccine hesitancy, the profession is effectively using this history to victimise the same communities again
Our system is still not conducive for dealing with community transmissions. Harsher restrictions and constant lockdowns are not the answer
While officials remain entangled in bureaucratic knots, clinicians warn that the continued closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital risks a ‘humanitarian disaster’
Allergic reactions, unusual blood clots and heart inflammation have all been linked to Covid vaccines. But most people won’t experience these severe reactions. Watch this easy explainer
More than 1 500 patients in Gauteng are currently on oxygen assistance
Thursday was the first time acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appeared before the committee, but she did not have many answers for MPs