Clicks has received approval from the National Department of Health to offer 47 vaccination sites nationally, with a further 520 awaiting approval for registration...
South Africa's proposal to waiver specific Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) obligations related to the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines is now supported by over 100 countries...
The country's vaccination programme on Sunday reached a welcomed milestone with Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, announcing the arrival of the first batch of the Pfizer vaccination doses...
Ghana became the first country globally to receive a vaccine shipment from the Covax facility...
Godfred Boafo 29 Apr 2021
South Africa will resume the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine rollout on Wednesday in a push to vaccinate 500,000 healthcare workers through the Sisonke Programme...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has invited the public to comment on the draft regulations of the Covid-19 Vaccine Injury No-Fault Compensation Scheme...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged his support for Global Citizen's Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World, to draw attention to the need to vaccinate, end Covid-19 and kickstart a global economic recovery...
Issued by OnPoint PR 14 Apr 2021
Kenya has started the first phase of its Covid-19 vaccination strategy. This was made possible by the delivery of just over one million AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in two batches...
Catherine Kyobutungi 9 Apr 2021
South Africa has secured 30-million Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccines, the first batch of which will will be delivered in April...
Most developed countries are in the advanced stages of Covid-19 vaccination rollouts. But a large number of developing countries, including most across Africa, are still at the early stages, mainly due to a shortage of shots...
Benjamin Kagina 18 Mar 2021
Nigeria has started to vaccinate people after receiving its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines. Virologist and senior research fellow Dr Solomon Bakarey provides some insights on how the country should go about the rollout plan...
Solomon Bakarey 15 Mar 2021
Government remains committed to vaccinate 40 million people, as per the original plan, by the end of the year to help the country reach herd immunity...
With the arrival of vaccines in the country, Kenya is set to begin its Covid-19 vaccination roll-out...
Catherine Kyobutungi 8 Mar 2021
From a healthcare perspective, this year's Budget Speech is significant in three key ways...
Ahmed Banderker 25 Feb 2021
While the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine has signified the first signs of light at the end of the tunnel, the reality is that this public health crisis is still far from over...
Chris Sullivan 18 Feb 2021
Once South Africa's Covid-19 vaccine rollout gets off the ground, mining companies will be important centres for distribution, but they will have to be circumspect in imposing vaccines on their employees...
Lizle Louw 9 Feb 2021
In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the legalities of mandatory Covid-19 vaccine policies. Here, we consider whether compulsory testing of employees for the coronavirus is allowed...
Jason Whyte 19 Jan 2021
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, global efforts have successfully developed both expedited means of testing for the virus and, more recently, vaccines...
Jason Whyte 15 Jan 2021
South Africa will take delivery of its first million doses of Covid-19 vaccine this month and an additional 500,000 in February from the Serum Institute of India (SII) through its Covax affiliation...
The South African government is hoping to rollout its Covid-19 vaccine programme as early as next month...
South Africa has made a down payment to secure the Covid-19 vaccine for 10% of the country's population...
Only a massive global rollout of an effective vaccine can end the Covid-19 pandemic in the short term. The vaccine is being rolled out in the United Kingdom and United States...
James Stent 22 Dec 2020