Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.

As a pathologist, I’m used to people thinking that my job mainly involves dealing with death. But nothing could be further from the truth. That is why I and many of my colleagues are so dismayed by changes introduced during the coronavirus epidemic which mean that pathology has not been able to play the role that it should have in helping to understand this new disease.

JOHANNESBURG – The COVID-19 lockdown alert levels 3 and 4 have been declared invalid and unconstitutional.
The High Court in Pretoria has handed down this judgment. The court, however, suspended the declaration of invalidity for a period of 14 days.

Norway is assembling a picture of what happened before lockdown and its latest discovery is pretty significant. It is using observed data – hospital figures, infection numbers and so on – to construct a picture of what was happening in March. At the time, no one really knew.

There is a breathtaking level of police violence in South Africa, and only Kenya and Nigeria have seen more people killed.

Online travel website Tourlane’s new survey found that South Africa was chosen as the most popular post-Covid-19 destination among travellers.

The opposition party is challenging the legitimacy of the Disaster Management Act in an attempt to challenge the coronavirus lockdown regulations

There are no easy answers, but focusing this much on a single problem has destroyed much of our children’s future – at least 3m people are going to be joining the unemployment queue.

A draft new South African Airways (SAA) Business Rescue Plan, prepared by Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs) Siviwe Dongwana and Les Matuson; and seen by the Democratic Alliance (DA), reveals that the government has agreed to a new R21 billion bailout for SAA.

Certainly one of the most celebrated academic flops in history. Still not a sound about his failure from the South African government. Maybe because his model is still worshipped here?

Triple board-certified M.D., Dr. Zach, joins Del in an evolutionary discussion on why Coronavirus is here, what it’s trying to tell us, and how we emerge from the darkness.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that scientists who are advising government on the response to the coronavirus crisis recommended that South Africa could move to Level 1 of the nationwide lockdown, as it had become a “blunt tool” in curbing the spread of the pandemic in the country.

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.