As the number of COVID-19 cases in India soar, so does information (and misinformation) about the treatment protocols, adding to the strain, confusion and feeling of helplessness among patients and caregivers.
The President’s latest announcement to the nation in reality revealed this government’s incompetence, lack of accountability and the continued sacrificing of certain sectors of the economy because of this government’s wholesale disastrous vaccine roll-out plan.
A legal opinion has found that MPs in the portfolio committee on health erred when they failed to hold health minister Zweli Mkhize accountable for his alleged role in the Digital Vibes saga.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has ruled out the possibility of implementing a Level 5 lockdown in the province, despite a staggering increase in Covid-19 cases there.
Doctors could soon have a new tool in their arsenal for the fight against the coronavirus. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more on the medicine that researchers in Australia say could cure the virus in just 48-hours.
Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of the start of the Soweto Revolt. Back then, on 16th June 1976, black South Africans faced pervasive racial discrimination in education, employment, home ownership, land purchases, and many other spheres.
Canada has become a world leader when it comes to share of population with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
The largest privately-owned cruise ship company in the world, MSC Cruises, yesterday reconfirmed, on its website, its statement made on 18 February 2021 that delays “to approve cruise operations in South Africa had led to the Company cancelling all its remaining sailings for the 2020/21 season.”
The illicit alcohol trade sales by volume have now overtaken the entire combined wine and cider sectors.
The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that South Africans now trust business more than any other institution, and are looking to CEOs to solve societal challenges that have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis.
The World Health Organization (WHO) should be overhauled and given more authority to investigate global disease threats, according to a review of the international Covid-19 response that found myriad failures, gaps and delays allowed the coronavirus to mushroom into a pandemic.
Social media posts have suggested that the contents of the vaccines for COVID-19 are not known, because the virus that causes the disease has not been isolated. This is not true.
Professor John Ioannidis remains one of the most respected lone voices of reason and debates the scientific anarchy that has fallen prey to media.
I was honoured to have been elected as member of the parliament for the third time in May 2019. To add to the excitement, I was appointed as Shadow Minister of Tourism.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford University Medical School, recently said that COVID-19 lockdowns are the “biggest public health mistake we’ve ever made…The harm to people is catastrophic.”
Policies imposed in rich countries to fight the coronavirus could have adverse effects in low-income nations—potentially endangering more lives than they save.
We would be well-served to remember that statistics that can mislead are prevalent in many areas of public policy today.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus variant that was first detected in South Africa has spread to dozens of countries.
A group of multi-disciplinary professionals, who perceived the global reaction to Covid, and lockdown in particular, as overwrought and damaging to the point of causing a great tear in the fabric of society, established PANDA (Pandemics Data & Analytics) in April 2020.
At the inaugural BizNews Investment Conference held in March 2021, Nick Hudson – co-founder of PANDA (Pandemics – Data & Analytics) – gave a keynote address on the absurdity and harmfulness of Covid-19 lockdowns.
