The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the entire globe and taken a massive toll on people’s mental health. According to a new analysis, in 2020, the effects resulted in a 25% surge in depressive and anxiety disorders across 204 countries, including South Africa.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says a new taskforce may be the last chance to find the origins of Covid-19. It has nominated 26 experts to join the body, the Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (Sago).
SA has launched its digital Covid-19 vaccine certificate with QR code – here’s how it works.
The pandemic caused digital grocery sales to skyrocket. As the market matures, key players are vying for dominance, which is driving trends like click and collect and partnerships with third-party delivery services.
The NHS Scotland Covid Status app was made available to download on Apple and Android devices on Thursday afternoon.
Following meetings of the National Coronavirus Command Council and the President’s Coordinating Council, Cabinet has decided to move South Africa from Adjusted Alert Level 2 to Adjusted Alert Level 1.
Three-quarters of Covid cases in Delta outbreak at Texas prison were among vaccinated inmates – but hospitalizations and deaths were three times higher among unvaccinated, CDC report finds.
Recently Indian press touted that Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state with about 230 million people was nearly COVID-19 free.
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.
