Nurses have emerged as heroes in the fight against Covid-19. The grit, quick decision-making and compassion required to take care of patients in the face of a terrifying global pandemic...
Bha Ndungane-Tlakula 15 hours ago
South Africa's health ministry said it had detected the first four cases of a new coronavirus variant that emerged in India and was responsible for a surge of infections and deaths in the Asian country...
Wendell Roelf 2 days ago
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...
Pippa Misplon joins Retroviral as managing director from Ogilvy South Africa where she was previously the business director for the PR & Influence Division...
Jessica Tennant 26 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...
South Africa's Covid-19 death rate is likely to be three times higher than the official figures
The world has a Covid-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations...
Dalindyebo Shabalala 16 Apr 2021
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has demanded a letter from the Department of Trade and Industry acknowledging its local investment before it will sign off the delivery of 20-million doses of the vaccine to South Africa...
The South African Department of Health has put the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on hold temporarily, while it investigates a possible link between the jab and a rare blood clot disorder...
Health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has announced that the second phase of the country's vaccination will begin on 17 May, as millions of doses of vaccine are set to land on South African shores over the next few weeks...
At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19...
Salim Abdool Karim 6 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...
There's hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against Covid-19 in the coming months...
Cyrus Sinai & Rob Fetter 23 Mar 2021
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has approved the Section 21 application for Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine...
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
More than 67,000 health workers have been inoculated in the 10 days since the national Covid-19 vaccination kicked off...
Media Fuse's Emeka Okeke believes the best approach to 2021 is combining old and new, known and unknown and settling on a hybrid model for success...
Issued by Dentsu 23 Feb 2021
This article provides you with a starting point, a way to begin honing your perspective and identifying the susceptibility of disruption in your industry: by gauging the past, the present and the yet-to-come...
Issued by Dentsu 18 Feb 2021
The recent appearance of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus causing Covid-19 infections), that may be associated with increased transmission of the virus and disease severity...
Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021
President Cyril Ramaphosa's 2021 State of the Nation Address (Sona) laid out the top four priorities for the future of the country...
National medicines regulatory authorities are gatekeepers that protect the public from unnecessary harm from health products. They do so in the best tradition of the injunction to "do no harm"...
Andy Gray 11 Feb 2021
Phase one of vaccine rollout could commence as soon as next week with healthcare workers receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine instead of an AstraZeneca jab...
Covid-19 vaccine supplies are available in various parts of the world. But it's clear that distribution is not symmetrical...
Keymanthri Moodley & Theresa Rossouw 10 Feb 2021
Plans to rollout the AstraZeneca vaccine have been paused after trials showed it to be less effective against mild to moderate forms of the B.1.351 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa...
There's now another dimension to the race to get people vaccinated. The coronavirus is mutating, potentially making current vaccines less effective against it...
Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021
The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa is viewed with more than a little scepticism...
To fast track the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a broad range of candidate Covid-19 vaccines are being investigated...
Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021
It's no secret that 2020 was one of the most challenging years in modern history. According to the Global Web Index' Connecting the Dots 2021 Report, the Covid-19 pandemic was a baptism by fire for many brands...
Angela Northover 22 Jan 2021
The issue of vaccine production has become a topic of hot debate following the approval of treatments for Covid-19. In South Africa angry exchanges have been spurred by the country's lagging access to Covid-19 vaccines...
Jeffrey Dorfman & Frank Kirstein 21 Jan 2021
Vaccines for Covid-19 are generating a lot of talk. To shed some light on which vaccines are available for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and how the process will work...
Ina Skosana & Ozayr Patel 19 Jan 2021
The Covid-19 emergency has focused minds on the urgent need for improved healthcare across Africa, aligning unprecedented opportunity for positive social impact with competitive returns...
Jason Mitchell 11 Jan 2021
The race is on to secure vaccines that will protect people from Covid-19. But it's already become apparent that there is gross inequality playing out in the procurement and distribution of the new drugs...
Caroline Southey 11 Jan 2021
South Africa's competitiveness as a global tourism destination depends on perceptions of safety for travellers...
Covid, like life, is very different for the poor. This applies to poor people as well as to poor countries...
John Davenport, Issued by Havas Johannesburg 22 Dec 2020
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
Research on vaccines for the SARS and MERS viruses paved the way for more rapid development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine allowing candidate vaccines to reach clinical trial stages in record time...
Grey Africa's work was recognised with 24 finalists across eight different categories, three statues and a craft certificate at the 2020 Loeries Creative Awards...
Issued by Grey Africa 4 Dec 2020
Scientists are working around the clock to develop and test vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of Covid-19...
Benjamin Kagina 2 Dec 2020
Three vaccine breakthroughs have sparked hope that the end of the Covid-19 pandemic is close. But vaccinating tens of millions of South Africans is going to be difficult...
James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020
In the long dark tunnel that has been 2020, November stands out as the month that light appeared. Some might see it as a bright light, others as a faint light - but it is unmistakably a light...
Michael Head 24 Nov 2020
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity...
In his national address last night, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the extension of the National State of Disaster to 15 December 2020, as well as a resurgence plan with interventions to curb the further spread of infections...
The ongoing, global Covid-19 pandemic has led to an obvious need for clarity regarding the regulatory approvals that must be satisfied before a vaccine can be rolled out...
Zareenah Rasool, Rui Lopes and Darryl Bernstein 11 Nov 2020
A Covid-19 vaccine has prevented the virus in more than 90% of people from getting the virus, a preliminary analysis shows...