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ANTI VAXXER

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate – A human rights question

The South African Human Rights Commission reiterates its call in encouraging everyone to have themselves vaccinated against Covid-19

  • Bongani Majola
5 min read
ASTRAZENECA

Government must find alternatives to AstraZeneca vaccine, say unions

Unions representing healthcare workers advise members to get vaccinated despite AstraZeneca postponement

  • Marcia Zali
4 min read
ANBAN PILLAY

The barcoding gap: Can South Africa protect its Covid jabs from crime?

Full track and traceability of Covid-19 jabs won’t happen during South Africa’s vaccine roll-out, as the health department has not yet adopted the “overarching” system that would…

  • Darren Taylor
9 min read
CONSENT

Vigilant eyes will monitor South Africa’s first batch of vaccines

The department of health is also negotiating with manufacturers other than AstraZeneca to secure more than one type of vaccine

  • Marcia Zali
3 min read
COMMUNISM

Bread and vaccines

Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions from the Covid-19 pandemic, but the vaccines they have developed are the fruits of the collective labour of all of humanity.

  • Aragorn Eloff
8 min read
City of Tshwane station officer Arrie Visser and special infection unit’s Rocco Veer do final checks on their isolation chamber before starting a night shift at the Hatfield Emergency Station. The chamber is equipped with a negative pressure filtration system and is used to transport positive Covid-19 patients. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)
HEALTH WORKERS

Relief is near in the scramble for vaccines

The health minister has announced a glimmer of hope with SA having secured 1.5-million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
8 min read
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BIOVAC

Secured: 1.5mn doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

Just days after Minister Zweli Mkhize came under fire for the government’s apparent slow take on securing the vaccine, he announced to Parliament that the first batch of dosages…

  • Emma Balfour
4 min read
A health official tries to drop a polio vaccine into the mouth of a child at Kaiama town in Bayelsa State.
ALBERT SABIN

Covid vaccines: Hope balanced with caution

As Covid vaccines near the manufacturing stage, a look at two polio vaccines provides valuable historical insights

  • Philip Machanick
6 min read