Misinformation fuelled by the US health secretary is creating a dangerous – and growing – lack of trust in vaccines

In the hospitals of 1980s South Africa, Naeemah Abrahams saw how often women showed up battered and bruised, a phenomenon her colleagues didn’t make much of. Three decades later,…

Repeated claims that the country was “following the science” really meant it was following a particular science followed by some Western scientists

As scientists scramble to learn more about it, infectious disease expert Professor Salim Abdool Karim says current vaccines are effective against the new variant

The vast majority of hospital admissions in Gauteng are of unvaccinated people, data from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases shows

Safety, side-effects and the jargon-filled scientific information explained for those who have concerns about getting vaccinated

Our system is still not conducive for dealing with community transmissions. Harsher restrictions and constant lockdowns are not the answer

A team working with the country’s Covid ministerial advisory committee uses a formula to keep tabs on the rise of infections. Here’s how it works

SA is on the verge of rolling out Covid-19 vaccines, but can we vaccinate children and pregnant women, and which jabs work against the 501Y.V2 variant?

In December 2020, scientists announced that a new variant of the Covid-19 — called 501Y.V2 — had been identified in South Africa. Here’s a look at what we’ve learnt in the past…

Although the new strain 501Y.V2 of the virus has spread 50% more rapidly, current evidence shows that it is not more severe than the one experienced in the first wave

Professor Salim Abdool Karim talks to Nicolene de Wee about his responsibility as head of the ministerial advisory committee tasked with guiding the government’s response to the…

Governments need to provide the modelling and data informing the strategy to control the spread of the novel coronavirus

The government’s professed reliance on science to justify its response to the pandemic reveals both its overconfidence and its insecurities about getting citizens to cooperate

South Africa needs clear communication between departments and with the public, particularly now during the Covid-19 pandemic

With little money to respond to Covid-19, the government is looking at other sources of funding

100 000 tests. 600 000 people screened. And an increase in daily tests to 30 000 — inside what the state is doing with the time the lockdown bought

The government’s plan to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath includes managing ‘the challenges of bereavement’ that will accompany large-scale deaths

The disease has a unique trajectory in South Africa, thanks to the rapid move to declare a national disaster and institute a lockdown. But this has only bought time to prepare…

Read South Africa’s Covid-19 response as presented by Professor Salim Abdool Karim on Monday