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Twelve tough months of Covid have left a legacy of innovations and changes to health systems and public behaviour that ...

The milestone of 100,000 health-care workers vaccinated was reached on Friday and a new shipment of Johnson & Johnson ...

It is 3pm and the school day has ended for many pupils at Kensington High School in Cape Town. But for Alashia Vlotman, ...

Madeleine van Wyk was the first South African to die from Covid-19, bringing home the reality of the pandemic which ...

A year after the first case of a Covid-19 infection in SA was reported - leading the country to be locked down along ...

On Friday, SA marked the passage of one year since the first Covid-19 patient was diagnosed, in the KwaZulu-Natal ...

The health department has been accused of lying to parliament about the procurement of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine ...

Covid-19 has had a significant impact on our lives. One effect that could yet be seen might be the development of ...

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has thanked nurses for their contribution in the fight against Covid-19.

SA's 100,000th Covid-19 vaccine has been administered, 17 days after the first shot was given out on February 17.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said the Covid-19 crisis has been a rough year-long journey for SA in which mistakes were ...

Epidemiologist tells New Frame he is deeply disturbed by ‘vaccine nationalism’.

Active Covid-19 cases in the region have dropped below 50, according to municipal data.

Over the course of the last year since the first outbreak of the coronavirus, numerous drugs and treatments have been ...

Premier Sihle Zikalala said the health-care workers who were hired by the KZN government last year have helped reduce ...

A preliminary study conducted by the KZN Research Informatics and Sequencing Programme showed people previously ...

Thousands of businesses have struggled due to the impact of Covid-19 in SA since the first case was recorded a year ...

SA has climbed two spots on the Worldometers ranking of countries with the most Covid-19 infections following the move ...

In a year of Covid-19 in SA, close proximity, financial pressures and even home schooling have hit couples hard and ...

As the country reflects on a year with the deadly coronavirus, here are some facts on the pandemic in SA.

As SA reflects on a year of heartache and mourning, here's a look at how the coronavirus has affected the world in ...

Exactly a year ago, the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in SA. Since then, more than 1.5 million people have ...

SA will receive between 9 million and 11 million Covid-19 vaccines between March and the end of June, health minister ...

In this podcast we revisit the first nights of chaos and confusion as SA and its citizens entered lockdown for the ...

The Sunflower Fund saw a 230% increase in people registering to become donors in the past year. The fund usually ...

Fikile Mbalula described Karima Brown as a brilliant journalist and broadcaster, while Thuli Madonsela paid tribute to ...

With lockdown levels being eased to alert level one this week, the elderly in care homes are excited and happy at the ...

In exactly a year since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in SA on March 5, 2020, there have been 1,517,666 ...

Society’s behaviour will determine when the country will experience the third wave of Covid-19 infections, health ...

Covid-19 has been named as the newsmaker of the year for 2020, the National Press Club announced on Thursday night.

We took to the streets to chat to South Africans about their biggest lessons, regrets and some of the positives to come ...

The television host and political commentator had been hospitalised for several weeks with a Covid-19 complication.

"A third wave is likely, but how we act now, in our response as a government, and our behaviour as individuals can help ...

Scientists have discovered that those infected with 501Y.V2 have a level of protection from previous and current ...

International policing authority Interpol on Wednesday said South African authorities had seized hundreds of fake ...

SA on Tuesday saw a second consecutive day of fewer than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases, with 856 new infections recorded.

Dr Jarrod Zamperini was in high spirits and said he felt "great" after receiving the life-saving jab.

SA’s first private sector vaccination site opened in the Western Cape on Tuesday as the province vaccinated its ...

A group of pharmacists have joined the legal chorus seeking to get blanket approval for the use of ivermectin, ...

Dlamini-Zuma has stressed that several acts of defiance under level 1 can still result in offences and penalties.

Western Cape premier Alan Winde said outdoor events under level 1 will be the income generators in the province.

Public sector unions want a general salary rise of consumer inflation plus 4% for all workers, a document they ...

The province’s tourism body is trying to fuel the industry by reminding people what it has to offer

The elite increasingly find flying private attractive, but possible public backlash will force companies to be discreet

Maureen Ferran, a virologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, explains how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine works ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday night that SA had "clearly emerged" from the second wave of coronavirus ...

SA recorded 1,168 new Covid-19 cases and 52 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the country to the verge of a grim ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that South Africans should not discount the possibility of a third wave of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday night assured South Africans that his government would ensure there were sufficient ...

Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says districts must alert communities ...

The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg will be closed to the public from Monday due to the coronavirus.

President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Sunday about the latest Covid-19 developments.

President Ramaphosa says SA has past the second wave peak, but urged vigilance as a third is ‘ever present’

The first wave of Covid-19 hit poorer people hardest, according to tests of 405 employees at the Victoria & Alfred ...

Finance minister Tito Mboweni has allocated R10.3bn to fund a massive vaccination programme to shield the entire ...

Government advisers have organised Covid-19 vaccines into three groups, with the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Moderna ...

Ndlozi compared vaccinations to voting and said if the government can organise millions to vote on a single day, then ...

'I would actually encourage people to take the vaccine if they can.'

Many countries around the world have begun their vaccination programmes. But what is SA’s plan, and what does our ...

Matric students from all over the country were on Tuesday morning scrambling to find out their results.

South African Breweries says allegations that it demonstrated no reverence for the dignity of health-care workers and ...

"As citizens, it is our duty and responsibility to defend the right to freedom of assembly"

Kelly Slingers is a relief pilot and the founder of the Plane Project. She spends her days collecting and donating ...

It is now a legal requirement for all businesses with more than 50 employees to submit weekly data on Covid-19 cases to ...

Shopping centre company says tenant arrears increased more than threefold last year.

Since being vaccinated, the Pretoria-based woman is documenting her journey to dispel myths about jabs

More than 10,000 people have been arrested since December for not wearing face masks in KwaZulu-Natal.

KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu says some health workers have refused to be vaccinated and won't be ...

'Our daily health-care worker inoculation target is 6,600 people,' says Prof Glenda Gray, co-principal investigator of ...

An NGO stepped in to create the Bulungula health point in the Xhora Mouth area of the former Transkei, meaning that ...

With a more than 50% chance of a new variant, experts are preparing for a third wave come autumn/winter

On Friday, SA passed the 1,5 million mark of confirmed Covid-19 cases, highlighting the need to remain vigilant

The tourism sector remains one of the untransformed sectors in the economy, thus making very little contribution to the ...

Nothing lasts forever, not even endless pandemics. The pain of this moment is its own reminder to celebrate the ...

On Sunday March 15 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a state of disaster to help the government address the ...

SA is pushing ahead with the planned rollout of the Pfizer vaccine, with experts not overly concerned about the results ...

When health-care workers lined up for the first Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccinations this week, it was an emotional ...

After seeing patients die of Covid in Khayelitsha District Hospital, Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi wondered if she would be next.

The sugary drinks tax has been impressively effective

Jobs data for the fourth quarter of 2020 will be closely watched to see to what extent the jobs market may have ...

Life was 'no rush' before the gold rush, and it seems those carefree days are making a comeback in these strange times ...

Two of SA government's top advisers on Covid-19 backed Pfizer's vaccine on Friday, despite a study earlier this week ...

SA has recorded 1,500,677 cumulative cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

A top Pfizer Inc scientist says the company is in intensive discussions with regulators to test a booster shot version ...

A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the ...

SA recorded 2,327 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed cases to date to 1,498,766.

A single mutation in the spike protein makes the most prevalent variant in SA up to eight times more transmissible

A doctor at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Umlazi, south of Durban, has told of how staff who had manned Covid-19 ...

Ramaphosa described the jab process as "just a prick on my flesh" and said the first vaccinations were a “real ...

There is a strong relationship between politics and willingness to accept the Covid-19 vaccine.

South Africans have widely adopted face masks to counter the threat of Covid-19 but are slipping on social distancing ...

The legal multinationals' market share of the sale of cigarettes went from 70% (pre-ban) to 33% (in ban) to 50% ...

A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the ...

13,000 of the 80,000 vaccines were set aside for health workers in the Western Cape.

On Wednesday the hospital did a test run of 20 shots of the 80,000 Johnson and Johnson vaccines which arrived in the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa was vaccinated on Wednesday at Khayelitsha District Hospital in Cape Town.

Dr Steve Mankupane, acting CEO of Soweto's Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, will be among the first health workers in ...

Labour ward sister Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi became the first health worker in SA to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday said he believes the countrywide vaccination process is going to be flawless and ...

There has been a substantial increase in employment due to eased lockdown measures from last year, but the country ...

The country's Covid-19 vaccine rollout is set to begin this week with the first batch of 80,000 Johnson & Johnson ...

The needle of SA's first Covid-19 vaccination is expected to be inserted into the arm of a healthcare worker on ...

As the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in SA climbed towards the 1.5 million mark, health minister Zweli ...

The first batch of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines will arrive at the OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday ...

It is heartwarming to witness the world solidarity that so quickly led to the establishment of the Covax global ...

SA plans to share a million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses it received from the Serum Institute of India with other ...

Almost two-thirds of Eastern Cape residents may already have had Covid-19, with antibodies picked up in blood donations ...

SA’s health ministry said on Tuesday the manufacturers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine had submitted ...

SA natural gas and helium producer Renergen will start production of its helium-powered ultra-cold mobile freezer in ...

SA has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million Covid-19 vaccine doses the company had sent in ...

Close to 3,000 pupils did not return to school last year after the imposition of the March lockdown due to Covid-19 ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic began, not much was known about SARS-CoV-2 and its survival in food, on materials and on ...

SA recorded 1,102 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

A dramatic drop in state and donor funding coupled with escalating Covid-19 expenses has left Durban's The Association ...

Education DG says pandemic has put financial strain on department, but at least leaks didn’t compromise matric exams

After a Covid-enforced delayed start to the 2021 year, it's all systems go when schools reopen on Monday.

A study published on Friday, led by authors from the National Blood Service, shows that a large percentage of the ...

Parents who wonder if they can skip paying school fees in the context of Covid-enforced longer school breaks have been ...

The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA (Naptosa) says not all of SA's schools are ready to receive ...

Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has officially extended the Disaster Management Act for another month.

SA health ombud and molecular immunologist Prof Malegapuru Makgoba is fiercely opposed to the rollout of the ...

Twenty land borders will reopen on Monday, the cabinet decided on Saturday.

SA's on-off Covid-19 vaccination programme has been rescued by a batch of 80,000 vaccines that Johnson & Johnson was ...

The 501.V2 variant has been a curveball for vaccine developers across the globe, with all asking the same question: ...

As countries scramble to find freezers capable of storing vaccines, one ultra-old fridge developed by a South ...

When South African drinkers couldn’t get their hands on their favourite tipple during the first hard lockdown last ...

SA recorded another 2,488 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to date to 1,484,900.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that the first batch of 80,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccination doses will arrive ...

Vaccines are the talk of the town, but what about the natural immunity (or lack thereof) enjoyed by those who have ...

Vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, is critical for saving SA's economy, businesses, and ...

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday night that 3,159 new Covid-19 cases had been recorded in the past 24 ...

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective and should be deployed widely, including in countries where the ...

Pfizer said it could deliver its Covid-19 vaccine, which requires ultra-cold temperatures for storage and distribution, ...

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said the nationwide phase 1 vaccine rollout is expected to start some time next week, with ...

Health minister Zweli Mkhize hosted a public briefing on Wednesday morning to address the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s ...

In this episode of 'Boots on the Ground' we send one of our toughest videographers, Emile Bosch, behind the veil at ...

From golfing and yachting to collecting priceless artworks and classic cars, super-wealthy South Africans are keeping ...

The minister dismissed speculation that the government will administer expired vaccines.

Paramedic Clive Moeleso says the only fear he experiences when responding to a suspected Covid-19 case is that he may ...

Proteas Twenty20 stand-in captain Heinrich Klaasen says he suffered heart palpitations when he battled Covid-19 two ...

Top scientists are upbeat about SA's Covid-19 vaccine rollout

As vaccines arrive, South Africa faces widespread scepticism over safety.

SA recorded 1,742 Covid-19 cases in the past 24-hours, but it was the positivity rate of 6.48% that will likely be the ...

There is no need to dump the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, as it still had an important place in SA’s fight ...

SA will start its immunisation campaign with Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine after data showed AstraZeneca's shot ...

Health officials around the world gave their backing to the AstraZeneca vaccine after a study showing it had little ...

Prof Shabir Madhi believes AstraZeneca's vaccine has a major role to play in Africa and globally, despite data showing ...

Managers of an East London establishment have been arrested after a video surfaced showing patrons ignoring lockdown ...

South African bus companies are under siege, with many operating at a loss and facing possible closure due to the ...

The Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University is conducting tests on the safety and efficacy of a herbal product from ...

The AstraZeneca vaccine is not particularly effective against mild to moderate disease caused by the dominant Covid-19 ...

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That was the question put to health-care workers on Friday. And the responses were ...

South African front-line health-care staff have been tirelessly battling the Covid-19 pandemic since the country's ...

Despite the disappointing news about the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, there still is some reason for hope

Mistakes happen, but to persist with inaction in the face of this insidious virus is unforgivable

'These vaccines came through with an expiry date in April, which we only identified upon arrival," said health DDG ...

South Africa halted the rollout of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccinations after data showed it gave minimal protection ...

The man arrested during a weekend protest against the national lockdown will be sent for mental evaluation after ...

New research shows the vaccine ‘fails to prevent mild and moderate Covid from SA strain’

President Cyril Ramaphosa has again extended the deployment of the army in the fight against Covid-19, again by another ...

Crowd capacity for this year’s event in Melbourne has been capped at 30,000 per day

Scientists have about 500,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine ready to offer health-care workers ...

Those implicated in the unlawful procurement of Covid-19 PPE and other medical supplies, as well as Ters fraud, are ...

Expert predicts a ‘rebound’ in infections, with officials reporting a rise in alcohol-related accidents and offences

As SA's first batch of Covid-19 vaccines begins rolling out to provinces this week, a massive security plan involving ...

Unless common sense - so desperately lacking among many ANC and government leaders - prevails, with the government ...

Open letter to the president, minister of basic education, minister of finance, minister of health and the minister of ...

In a move that could dramatically alter SA's access to more Covid-19 vaccine, Cape Town-based biopharmaceutical company ...