Two days ago, Nathan Geffen – the editor of GroundUp – published an article titled ‘Nick Hudson and PANDA are wrong. Believing them is deadly’. The headline alone gives away the fact that it is essentially a hit-piece on both PANDA and the organisation’s co-founder, Nick Hudson.
Minister of Tourism, Lindiwe Sisulu, needs to break her silence and provide an urgent update on how her department plans to address South Africa’s current status as a “red list” destination for various countries.
Police in Melbourne fired pepper balls and rubber pellets on Tuesday to disperse about 2,000 protesters who defied stay-at- home orders to damage property, block a busy freeway and injure three officers, leading to more than 60 arrests.
Epidemiologist Dr Jo Barnes has joined the growing chorus for the government to rethink its approach in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, with the ’’credibility’’ of several of its decisions being questioned.
The National Institutes of Health provided a non-recommendation for the use of ivermectin in COVID-19, stating that there was: “insufficient evidence … to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.”
A debunked smear campaign against its competing drug—the FDA-approved, Nobel prize-honored ivermectin.
Twenty-seven-year-old Ankit Dubey was sick and terrified. He could hear sirens blaring across Lucknow, his home in northern India. He had been warned away from hospitals. People in his middle-class neighborhood were dying.
Major public events could lead to a “real spike” in Covid-19 cases, so vaccine passports may be introduced at venues from late September to prevent that and avoid closing the economy, the UK’s Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said.
The battle to fill low-skill jobs is in large part due to competition with warehousing and distribution operations.
Ryanair flew 11.1 million passengers in August, passing the 10 million mark for the first time since Covid-19 hit in March 2020.
By ignoring the LGBTQ voting block – or Pink Vote – South Africa’s political parties ‘risk missing out on an active, dynamic, and electorally valuable market’, according to a new report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
As the Covid-19 pandemic keeps several airline fleets grounded, carriers are accelerating the retirement of aircraft, leading to a surge in the dismantling and trading of plane parts.
James Bond actor Colin Salmon has detailed his horrific battle with Covid-19, revealing he felt he was near death.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine got full Food and Drug Administration approval on Monday – and the agency also approved the vaccine’s official name, Comirnaty, pronounced koe-mir-na-tee.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the imposed social distancing restrictions represented an unprecedented shock for the world economy and caused a marked increase in uncertainty.
What do we really know about the link between the virus and blood clotting?
Delta hit Israel in June, just as the country began to reap the benefits of one of the world’s fastest vaccine roll-outs.
Sweden, which has shunned the strict lockdowns that have choked much of the global economy, emerged from 2020 with a smaller increase in its overall mortality rate than most European countries, an analysis of official data sources showed.
A recent epidemiological study, currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server, demonstrates that all-cause mortality was mostly unchanged during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic compared to the previous four years in Norway and Sweden.
“Living your best life” — known as “god-saeng” in Korean — is a growing trend among members of South Korea’s Generation Z.
