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The WHO says though there have been rare cases of accidental swallowing and intoxication, alcohol-based hand sanitisers ...

Spotify to remove Neil Young’s music after singer objects to being on platform that streams Covid misinformation

SIU informs Ramaphosa of challenges over R216m payment for PPE probe

The Western Cape health department says there are steps you can take to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19 from used ...

After an 18-month investigation, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday authorised the release of the final report of the ...

New data from the International Shark Attack File reveals the number of provoked and unprovoked attacks for 2021

More than R42m spent to rent marquees for a controversial camp for homeless people in Cape Town has been declared ...

SA recorded just fewer than 3,200 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Tuesday.

Three senior Western Cape education officials are under investigation over a R54m contract to supply cloth face masks.

Family spokesperson Mangaliso Alexander Xaba said Khompela had been admitted to hospital more than a month ago for ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended two new drugs to treat patients with Covid-19, one for patients ...

Medical and scientific bodies have called for the Commission for Gender Equality to withdraw its warning against ...

The end of the Covid state of disaster was flagged on Wednesday by President Cyril Ramaphosa but experts told the ...

Disagreement turns to tragedy when any person on either side of the vaccine wall rejoices at the death of an adversary, ...

When Covid-19 hit SA and stigmatisation was at its peak, many healthcare workers were shunned in their communities due ...

SA is likely to enter the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in May or sooner, says health minister Joe Phaahla.

The loan is intended to protect the poor and support economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

EFF leader Julius Malema took his call for the government to open stadiums to the office of sports minister Nathi ...

SA recorded just less than 4,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, statistics from the NICD revealed on Thursday.

There is no evidence that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses against Covid-19.

A study has found that children in sub-Saharan Africa hospitalised with Covid-19 are dying at a rate far greater than ...

SA is reconsidering the national state of disaster as the rate of Covid-19 infections dip, President Cyril Ramaphosa ...

In the UK, more than 400,000 people dropped out of work between February 2020 and November last year

Gauteng recorded more than 1,000 of SA's 4,322 new Covid-19 cases, the NICD reported on Wednesday.

Patrick Soon-Shiong says R4bn will be invested in the project, with another R100m for education and training

Lions and pumas at a zoo in the South African capital of Pretoria got severe Covid-19 from asymptomatic zoo handlers, ...

Swine flu (H1N1 flu) was the virus responsible for the last global pandemic before Covid-19.

Elderly Greeks could be fined R1,800 a month if they do not get vaccinated, with the money going to hospitals

Some countries think so, but experts say we will still have to be vigilant and there’s ‘no reason to sound the ...

Experts say a lack of dedicated IPC specialists, a field ‘not recognised as a speciality in Africa’, is putting lives ...

Health minister Joe Phaahla said announcements regarding mandatory vaccinations will be made in due time as the ...

The DA has called on basic education minister Angie Motshekga to scrap the rotational schooling system and do away with ...

Well intentioned it may be, but the state is going to have to start moving away from this unsustainable legislation

Health minister Joe Phaahla says Gauteng has exited the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections.

The total number of recorded Covid-19 related fatalities in SA climbed to 93,117 with an additional 128 deaths reported ...

Long Covid cannot be formally diagnosed and there is no way of telling who will suffer from the ailment.

Western Cape premier bases optimism on research showing Omicron’s reduced rates of hospitalisation or death

Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer has called for the scrapping of the one-metre social distancing rule in ...

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center said "none of the vaccines interact with or alter your DNA in any way, and ...

People have been told to use condoms to protect themselves against HIV/Aids but many never heeded the call and were not ...

Data shows 181 Covid-19 related deaths and 6,762 new infections recorded in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

A Covid-19 vaccine trial in SA will assess the safety and impact of varying doses of Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer shots ...

The department of health is open to engagements with relevant sporting stakeholders in a move that may pave the way for ...

The Western Cape government has issued some advice on the best way to keep yourself safe when using a community toilet ...

It is unclear whether all 27 top achievers in last year’s matric exams will attend an event next week where the results ...

EU member states have agreed to lift the air travel ban on Southern African countries, which will allow more travel to ...

Travellers urged to provide verifiable identity documents and birth certificates for children 12 to 17 years old.

As inland schools open, education minister tells of strife to get her niece admitted

Covid-19 cases identified in SA have increased by 5,668, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) ...

DA leader John Steenhuisen has again called for an end to the national state of disaster.

Prof Adrian Puren says SA could be out of the Covid-19 fourth wave within 10 or 11 days.

Wits SRC president Cebolenkosi Khumalo said the university should have adopted a "pro choice" approach in its decision ...

A further 77 Covid-19 related deaths were reported in SA on Monday.

"We are in trouble when it comes to learning losses and we would like to see as many of our kids full-time at school as ...

The latest variant of the coronavirus is likely to infect lung tissue than previous strains, based on hospital ...

Another year of disrupted learning begins on Wednesday for pupils in the five inland provinces, and a week later for ...

Our leaders are telling us to keep calm, but that might no longer be the right approach to the mess we are in.

EFF leader Julius Malema has urged president Cyril Ramaphosa to lift all Covid-19 restrictions so that entertainment ...

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the government to finalise vaccine mandates.

Speaking for the first time since the incident, President Cyril Ramaphosa has insisted that he abruptly left an ANC ...

The Covid-19 travel ban imposed by Mauritius on SA, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique ...

According to the department of health, covering your nose and mouth for a long time with a mask won't cause carbon ...

Health department records a high 551 Covid-19 fatalities on Thursday, but says they are historical deaths and that only ...

Western Cape premier Alan Winde says the province has passed the peak of its fourth wave of Covid-19 and a consistent ...

Official deaths due to Covid-19 declined to 425 from 428. The excess death decline was the first in three weeks.

Africa's top public health official said on Thursday that severe lockdowns were no longer the best way to contain ...

You can still contract Covid-19 at work, but there are things you can do to protect yourself.

The 139 deaths took the total number of fatalities in SA since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 to 91,451, the ...

SAB, part of Anheuser-Busch InBev, said on Tuesday it was looking at making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for staff ...

"At present, retesting people who have experienced mild illness, and have recovered from Covid-19 is not recommended," ...

SA recorded just more than 3,200 new Covid-19 cases and 87 deaths in the past 24 hours.

"Is this what adjusted level 1 has become? Really now? No masks, just fun!" exclaimed Mboweni.

The Association of Southern African Travel Agents (Asata) has urged the Mauritian government to lift its ban on travel ...

The World Health Organisation says a "mass gathering" or "superspreader" event doesn't have to have thousands of people ...

Most new cases of Covid-19 recorded on Sunday were in the Western Cape (27%). followed by Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal ...

Despite the Covid-19 curfew being lifted on Thursday, minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele says the state of ...

The province with the most new Covid-19 cases reported on the last day of 2021 — as the country gears up to celebrate ...

The tourism and hospitality sectors, among those that have been most affected by the Covid-19 lockdown due to ...

SA's curfew has been lifted with immediate effect following a special cabinet meeting on Thursday.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported an additional 126 Covid-19 related deaths on Thursday.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, it is important that children feel safe, loved, included ...

SA recorded 9,020 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Wednesday.

Minister of trade, industry and competition, Ebrahim Patel, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.

Health experts have highlighted the risk of Covid-19 spreading when using a fan in enclosed spaces.

There were 7,216 Covid-19 cases recorded across SA in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable ...

The governing party’s 110th birthday celebrations will be held at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) advises that people with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, TB and HIV ...

There were 321 new hospital admissions in the past day, the NICD said, taking the total number of people admitted ...

It is safe to exercise during the Covid-19 pandemic, but experts have provided safety guidelines.

Deputy President David Mabuza used his Christmas message on Friday to encourage those still sceptical about Covid-19 ...

KZN recorded 5,411 and the Western Cape 4,609 of the 21,099 new Covid-19 cases - compared with 3,807 recorded in ...

While many have developed persistent Covid-19 symptoms long after getting the virus, a condition known as "long Covid", ...

The admission of patients to the continent’s largest field hospital reduced the predicted duration of hospital stay by ...

More than 9,000 people are currently hospitalised for Covid-19 related treatment as the fourth wave continues to spread ...

The isolation period for Covid-19 patients with symptoms should be reduced from 10 days to seven, the ministerial ...

Pointless Covid-19 testing has become a public health threat as the Omicron variant continues to deliver a wave of mild ...

The NICD said on Monday there were 8,515 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed ...

London mayor Sadiq Khan has declared a “major incident” due to a rapid spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant across ...

China urged residents of the country’s higher-risk Covid areas not to travel unless necessary as the country goes into ...

The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine booster shot for South ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says 15,465 new Covid-19 cases have been identified in South ...

This is the second time the minister has tested positive for Covid-19.

The SA Medical Research Council’s waste water surveillance team has detected rapidly rising concentrations of Covid-19 ...

SA is giving 2-million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to African countries in 2022.

Of the new cases, Gauteng recorded the highest number (5,850), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (5,134) and the Western Cape ...

While studies into the relationship between Covid-19 and vaping are ongoing, the World Health Organisation has noted ...

Most Covid-19 patients who died in SA hospitals since mid-November were unvaccinated or partly vaccinated.

The Omicron variant of Covid-19, revealed by SA scientists just 23 days ago, has been reported in 89 countries, the ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported an additional 36 Covid-19 related deaths and 24,785 new cases ...

The police and the Hawks are appealing to the public to help them locate Swereen Govender, who allegedly persuaded ...

While studies on the effect of Covid-19 on TB patients are limited, the World Health Organisation says it anticipates ...

The national coronavirus command council has retained the lockdown at adjusted level 1, health authorities said on ...

SA's lockdown restrictions will stay at level 1 even as the country heads into the holidays season, the health ...

A small study of sevenCovid-19 cases in SA shows the Omicron variant can break through booster vaccine shots, one of ...