Prof Barry Schoub was recently appointed chair of the new ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19 vaccine development
The 51-strong committee has been told it is being disbanded
In Khayelitsha‚ once Cape Town's biggest Covid-19 headache‚ per capita active infections are down to 22 per 100‚000
About 13% of smokers in SA have stopped smoking due to financial as much as health reasons, according to a GlobalData survey
The Health Professions Council of SA says the case has criminalised the medical profession and many doctors fear working in such conditions
Scientists investigate whether proven vaccines against measles, polio and tuberculosis might provide a stopgap measure
Researchers have no easy answer for why country was spared hospitals being overwhelmed as in Italy and US
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to address SA this week on the easing of the lockdown, as the national state of disaster has been extended to October 15
‘A lot of familiar faces aren’t there anymore … You assume that a lot of these people died at home because they never made it to a hospital,’ one doctor says
College aims to enable participants to share data and analytics to improve identification, response and recovery
Discovery model projects end-of-year death toll could have been 25% higher without action
The earlier version of Assa’s model had produced a limited range of scenarios, and many focused on the higher death estimate of 80,000
The data is likely to spark discussion about whether some regions have enough people with immunity for the virus to no longer easily spread
More research is needed to establish the precise role of alcohol in the uptick, says report co-author
On Tuesday, MPs debated the extent to which an external service provider should get involved
Activists and researchers complain about the charge for treatment imported from the US
Scientists will determine if the anti-diarrhoea drug nitazoxanide improves outcomes in high-risk patients
Some advisors say the move is long overdue and the public should have had sight of them from the start
NHLS says it has contingency plans in place should Nehawu’s strike go ahead at labs, which conduct Covid-19, HIV and tuberculosis tests
Private laboratories are likely to begin offering the tests this week
