‘Hard lockdown is no longer sustainable in its current form’ — Mkhize
Take a look at what Health Minister Zweli Mkhize presented to the National Command Council.
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Publication Title: Presentation to the National Command Council: Easing...
No cloth mask, no entry: Rules for restaurants, hotels and casinos under level 3...
Here’s how tourism services can reopen while protecting their employees and patrons from the coronavirus.
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Publication title: Directions to address, prevent and combat the...
Level 3 lockdown: You can buy booze again, but there’s a catch. Read the...
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Publication title: Determination of alert levels / hotspots and amendment of regulations issued in terms of section 27(2)
Author(s): Department of Cooperative Governance and...
Where can South Africa’s healthcare workers get a COVID vaccine?
More COVID vaccines are arriving in South Africa over the next few weeks. These jabs are allocated for healthcare workers as part of the Sisonke trial. Find out where they'll be available.
SA’s lockdown liquor ban: All the spats and stats
Take a look back at all our reporting on the alcohol ban, whether it helped, and why it was necessary
South Africa banned the sale...
Updated South African guidelines for the testing and treatment of the new coronavirus
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Publication title: Clinical management of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 disease (Version 4)
Author(s): National Department of Health and National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
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Reporters, are you ok? If you’re feeling traumatised, you’re not alone
Journalists have immersed themselves in the COVID-19 story for months. But at what cost to their mental health? A recent study found that three quarters of reporters surveyed felt significant emotional distress.
Q&A: Six things you’d want to know about COVID jabs
South Africa is on the verge of rolling out COVID vaccines widely, but can we vaccinate children and pregnant women, and which jabs work against the 501Y.V2 variants identified in South Africa? We asked the epidemiologist and former ministerial advisory committee chairperson, Salim Adbool Karim.
COVID-19 casualties: Why medical aids are keen on saving South Africa’s failing medical practices
A new proposal guarantees private doctors at least 70% of what they made before the pandemic hit — but it also helps medical aid schemes’ financial risks in the face of mounting coronavirus claims.
Lockdown laws: South Africa’s amended regulations
South Africa’s efforts to stymie the spread of the new coronavirus continue with new regulations gazetted by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister,...
Coronavirus testing criteria: A quick reference for South African healthcare workers
An updated version of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ (NICD) reference guide for health workers testing for the new coronavirus.
COVID lessons for South Africa’s National Health Insurance
What implementation lessons can we transfer from the country’s COVID vaccine roll-out to universal access to healthcare? We ask our panel of experts.
Did COVID-19 help Big Business punt harmful products?
Clever marketing by industries promoting unhealthy products during the pandemic could have negative outcomes for public health, a new report argues
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World Health Organisation guidelines for managing and treating latent TB
A consolidated look at the World Health Organisation’s latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) guidelines.
Explained: This is how advances in HIV medicines helped turn the tide on a...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to services for HIV prevention and treatment — but before that great progress had been made in these areas. An ever-expanding toolkit of new interventions and medications has helped turn what was once a death sentence into a manageable chronic condition. Find out more.
SA is not reaching herd immunity. Our new goal is containment – here’s how...
The stop-start nature of South Africa’s roll-out is not the only reason herd immunity is an unrealistic goal for this year. A scarce supply of vaccines and new variants of concern circulating in the country play a role too. Find out more.