The head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health believes Norway could have brought the coronavirus pandemic under control without a lockdown, and called for the country to avoid such far-reaching measures if hit by a second wave.

The South African government will use the Covid-19 health crisis to correct the imbalances in the economy that the pandemic has highlighted, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.

The COGTA minister has been clashing with the DA for most of this enforced lockdown period. But during this online meeting of Parliamentary representatives, things turned a little sour. Dlamini-Zuma refused to answer a question which related to these comments she made about “class suicide” back in April.

The Covid-19 crisis has revealed several lessons about the exercise of power in South Africa.

South Africa is likely to see long-term economic damage and “deep scarring” on unemployment numbers unless urgent reforms are implemented to attract foreign investment and improve ease of doing business.

Department of Health acting director-general Dr Anban Pillay “abused the power” of his office when he wrote to the chairperson of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) to recommend an investigation be launched into its president, Professor Glenda Gray, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) said on Monday afternoon.

South Africa is the first country in the world to allow an illegal brand to become its top-selling cigarette.

More than 600 of the nation’s physicians sent a letter to President Trump this week calling the coronavirus shutdowns a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing negative health consequences” to millions of non COVID patients.

This week, I interviewed a brilliant mathematician, who has agreed to provide a witness statement for the Grand Jury investigation into allegations that there is evidence that the UK government has committed pandemic fraud.

Get to know PANDA. Brilliant logic that throws all the rubbish scaremongering theories that turns us into sheeple out the window.

We failed to make good use of the lockdown. Maintaining it now is “suicidal for South Africa”, warns Prof Alex van den Heever.

The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) have announced that they will be going to war against what they feel are unfair selection criteria for COVID-19 relief grants, with successful candidates required to be Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) compliant.

Black Economic Empowerment has not added any value to the South African economy and should be scrapped and replaced with a more integrated business development policy, according to political economist Moeletsi Mbeki.

A study of autopsy findings of the first 12 patients who died of COVID-19 in a hospital in Hamburg, Germany, has found that 7 (58%) of them had undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis, suggesting that the virus may cause abnormal blood clotting.

RW Johnson writes on how the SACP has been staking out a position against IMF-style reform.

Proponents of BEE, or any kind of race-based affirmative action, face serious challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic. In this crisis, they can insist on using race as a proxy for disadvantage and on applying race-based regulations to supply chains and procurement serving the relief effort; or they say that for now both the beneficiaries and distributors of Covid-19 relief are to be judged by means and needs alone irrespective of race, as a strictly temporary exception. Neither option is likely to work for very long.

Imperial finally released a derivative of Ferguson’s code. I figured I’d do a review of it and send you some of the things I noticed. I don’t know your background so apologies if some of this is pitched at the wrong level.

If you pay you will have a criminal record, when in many cases your legal rights have in fact been violated.

When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: the Bethanien hospital lung clinic in Moers, near his home in northwestern Germany.

Some members of the council have publicly criticised the government on the continued lockdown, saying it had no basis in science and should be lifted.