The government has also started administering J&J booster shots from 24 December and will roll out Pfizer boosters from 28 December
According to the ministerial advisory committee, the quarantine period for “high-risk contacts” of Covid-19 patients is not an effective measure for containing the spread of the virus
According to the government’s latest Covid-19 guidelines, anyone coming into Zimbabwe must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days — at their own expense
Eligible COP26 attendees are expected to receive their UK-sponsored Covid-19 jabs this week, but the Climate Action Network says it is too late
Myths abound about what works and doesn’t once you have contracted the virus. As the second wave engulfs the country here is what specialists have to say
Fourteen days of quarantine in a Centurion hotel may be tedious, but for Kate Bartlett, there are plenty of laughs with new friends
The ANC has a solution for cadres: Wait until the next news cycle. Rinse. Repeat.
For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely
Sixteen people identified during mass testing in the Eastern Cape were first taken to a B&B before being taken to a hospital
South Africans stuck abroad are told to be patient while the government is negotiating with different countries and working on ways to bring them back home
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Music, art and theatre are moving online as cultural workers adjust to lockdown
With everyone settling into an indoors routine or starting to lose it because of cabin fever, this guide should remind you that creativity and beauty still exist, virtually represented but there, nonetheless.
After testing negative for Covid-19, 112 South Africans quarantined in Limpopo can now go home
Last week the Brazilian health minister warned that the country’s public health system was likely to collapse under the strain of the coronavirus by the end of April. Although this was fear-inducing to most people in Brazil, that country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, decided to take selfies with supporters outside the presidency. This, despite the fact […]
Tracing the close contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus disease is a delicate dance. Here’s why these health workers wait
for the cover of darkness to take action
Hope requires empathy and a courageous optimism and faith that, as a species, our existence as humans transcends even the darkest of times
South Africans are economically stressed and will quickly find ways to circumvent restrictions. Without social mobilisation we won’t be able to ensure the compliance that other countries have been able to enforce
New regulations have a far-reaching impact on people’s rights, but they are finely balanced against people’s Constitutional rights
They have not been diagnosed with the coronavirus and the health department says there’s no need for citizens to panic
Africans living in China want to be evacuated
South African students in China are staying behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak