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latest news & developmentsChina rails at ‘dark history’ of US intelligence as Biden orders virus probe
President Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source…
From order to chaos in a few seconds
The butterfly effect illuminates how even the slightest change in conditions can have massive ramifications down the line
WHO experts to arrive in Wuhan for delayed virus probe
The 10 scientists will investigate the origins of the new virus in a politically fraught mission that comes more than a year after the pandemic began, with accusations Beijing…
WHO experts to wade into tricky territory in hunt for virus’ origins
A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts are due in China for a highly politicised visit to explore the origins of the coronavirus, in a trip trailed by accusations of…
2020 in pictures
Mail & Guardian pictures editor Paul Botes presents some of the most striking images of 2020
A brief history of anti-black violence in China
The recent news of evictions and mistreatment of African students in China during the Covid-19 pandemic is rooted in a history of violence and discrimination
SOS: Covid-19 leaves stranded Africans distressed and abandoned
Many African governments have paid little more than lip service to their citizens stranded all over the world
How China broke the chain of infection
As information about the coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organise an immense campaign against its spread
Building Carma: Matters of the heart and its diseases
Research at Stellenbosch University looks at the link between viral infections and cardiovascular disease
Pandemic gives us a last chance to avert climate – and social – catastrophe
As Covid-19 upends life, it has taught us critical lessons and offers an opening to confront other crises. Political will is required, of course
‘My biggest fear was getting the virus and dying in a foreign country’
South African Wuhan evacuee speaks about his nine-week ordeal
South Africans from Wuhan quarantine group safe to go home
After testing negative for Covid-19, 112 South Africans quarantined in Limpopo can now go home
The coronavirus outbreak through the eyes of a South African doctor in Seattle
The coronavirus outbreak through the eyes of a South African doctor in Seattle
Surviving Covid-19 — and Modi
A religious and nationalist agenda has replaced the promise of development and left India ill-equipped to manage the pandemic
665 to 12-million infected: The possible SA coronavirus numbers
If nothing changes and infections continue to increase at the current rate, South African healthcare facilities could be further overwhelmed