Coronavirus
'Up to 80 percent' in Sicily refuse AstraZeneca vaccine: president
Public confidence in the Anglo-Swedish jab has been badly shaken by reports linking it to rare, but potentially fatal, blood clots, and by conflicting...
China has four conditionally approved vaccines, whose published efficacy rates remain behind rival jabs by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which have 95% and 94% rates respectively.
The medical doctor and media personality became a household name through sharing her support and health advice on social media, quickly gaining a large following.
Gauteng has reported the most deaths, recording 11 fatalities in the latest cycle. It is followed by Mpumalanga with eight, and KZN and Free State with five deaths respectively. One death was recorded in the Eastern Cape.
The Van Zyl family confirmed the much-loved doctor passed away on Saturday morning at a Johannesburg hospital. She was 45 years old.
At the same time, our recovery rate is at a steady 95%, which means more than 1.481 million people have recovered.
As in India, Europe's stuttering vaccine roll-out faced multiple hurdles Friday as EU regulators said they were reviewing side effects of the Johnson & Johnson shot and France further limited its use of the AstraZeneca jab.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - a fierce critic of wealthy countries buying up vaccine supply for themselves - blasted the scarcity of doses available for poorer nations.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said its safety committee 'has started a review of a safety signal to assess reports of thromboembolic events' with people who had received the shot.
The new restrictions are far less severe than the blanket lockdowns seen in other countries and mainly call for restaurants and bars to close at 8 pm, with the threat of fines for those that do not.
The World Health Organization has called for studies on so-called mixing and matching between vaccines, but said there was no comprehensive data so far on which it could make any recommendations.
Government said that it would release more details in due course on the changes to its rollout plan and which group could get ready to line up for their inoculations in the next few phases.
The Citizen newspaper is reporting that the chartering of the S340-600 at an estimated cost of R5 million was unnecessary because the vaccine maker, Johnson & Johnson, provided the vaccines on a 'not-for-profit' basis.
Cosatu has described government’s efforts so far in the rollout of the vaccine programme as gross incompetence, which came with deadly consequences.
The pass is a mobile application for travellers to help manage their verified certifications for COVID-19 tests and vaccines.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that more vaccines would be delivered as the country got ready for the second phase of the immunisation campaign next month.
Sixty-two more people have died in South Africa after contracting the coronavirus, with the death toll now standing at 53,173.
In a nine-to-two vote, Federal Supreme Court (STF) judges settled an issue that has triggered widespread legal and political debate as Brazil faces its worst phase of the pandemic yet.
The facility discharged its last COVID-19 patients two days ago, but a child tested positive there earlier on Thursday