The latest coronavirus coverage

Ramaphosa announces SA will now move back to the least restrictive level of the lockdown

Address at 8pm comes as the country continues the rollout of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine against Covid-19

The shot is being administered to local health-care workers as part of a rolling review

The number of sites that will be available for vaccination will be expanded next week from 17 sites to 49 sites

Pfizer commits to 600,000 doses, says Zweli Mkhize, bringing the total to 1.1-million, and health-care workers remain ...

Pressure to extend that and other relief grew when the government tightened level 3 lockdown restrictions late in ...

Shot achieved a rate of 64% at stopping moderate to severe cases of Covid-19 in SA after 28 days

SA will benefit from resumption of international goods trade and a resurgence in tourism, Treasury says

Treasury institutes a R67.2bn cut to consolidated health expenditure over the medium term

Zweli Mkhize also says his department and the Treasury have finalised a proposed compensation approach for people who ...

His state of the province address on Tuesday spelt out how badly revenue collection in municipalities was affected in ...

Premier says anticorruption gains have been eroded and the Gauteng government will crack the whip on offenders

The Tourism Business Council of SA says this will reassure foreign tourists

Streamlining system for Covid-19 jabs aims to end long waiting times and stop queue-jumping by health workers

Vaccination drive has a bumpy start at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital amid high demand

Proposed legislation will prohibit the ceding of medical claims to third party administrators

Of the 15 Master’s Offices nationally, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town are the hardest hit by bottlenecks in the ...

The police are working with Interpol and the Indian authorities to establish the source of drugs some say are effective ...

The liquor industry is one of the biggest  contributors to state coffers, accounting for about R46.8bn in excise tax in ...

The president says SA needs to develop the capacity to respond to pandemics that might arise in the future

The vaccine rollout was paused last week after data from a small trial showed it offered minimal protection against the ...

Clearance for flight provided by SACAA too late for the vaccine run to Brussels

Wage protection scheme’s extension to go ahead for wide range of those affected by the pandemic

Plan was to build public confidence in vaccine but only the president and his deputy exempted

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mkhize received one of the J&J vaccines at the Khayelitsha district hospital in the ...

Parliament hears defence force ignored procurement protocols and dodged inquiries by regulator

As SA pivots to the J&J vaccine, the 1-million AstraZeneca doses will not go to waste

The DA says the president’s state of the nation address was more or less a repeat of those delivered in 2018, 2019 and ...

One of the grounds for the challenge is that the fund violates the government’s own BBBEE policy

The 20 crossing points were closed to prevent super-spreader events

Without the work done in our labs, the world would not have come nearly so far in its fight against Covid-19

The government plans to begin dispensing shots to health-care workers on Wednesday after J&J's vaccine gets the green ...

Millions of South Africans will receive an additional three months’ support as the government extends the R350 payment

Education minister holds a media briefing on the readiness of schools for their opening on Monday

Health-care workers will be inoculated from research stock while approval for J&J's vaccine is pending

The scheme is already yielding positive results with the UAE the latest country to permit imports of chicken products ...

The president has only two cards to play when he delivers his speech on Thursday

Many factors seen as contributing to scepticism about vaccination

The shot still appears to prevent more serious problems, says expert, despite poor numbers in local trials against the ...

Wits University health & social security systems specialist Alex van den Heever talks to Business Day TV

The border posts are due to reopen on February 15

It has already secured 9-million doses of J&J’s coronavirus vaccine and talks are on for 20-million more

Provinces move on plans to get shots to health--care workers as soon as possible

Local researchers caution the  vaccine  was tested only in male volunteers and there's no clinical evidence it protects ...

Groups seek concrete guidance on vaccine strategy and implementation of SA's economic reconstruction and recovery plan

Government scrambles to rethink strategy after analysis of shortcomings in AstraZeneca shot

Michael Avery talks to a panel about the delay in SA’s vaccine rollout

Covax allocates 3.1-million vaccine doses to SA in first round, which could ensure the government has enough doses to ...

So far only about 38,000 of SA’s estimated 1.25-million healthcare workers have registered on the site to receive the ...

The Serum Institute of India and Pfizer will be protected from liabilities resulting from adverse developments

Players in the sector chide government for bans and lack of consultation

In a strangely bland keynote speech at the Mining Indaba, he ignored an impassioned plea for urgent economic action ...

The peer-reviewed phase 3 trial results means another vaccine can join the fight against Covid-19

DA says extension of the agreement to nonparties will be a ‘death blow’ to sector reeling from Covid lockdowns

Vinpro wants to guard against the industry being turned ‘on and off’ by the government, MD Rico Basson says

President Cyril Ramaphosa lifts the total ban on alcohol sales

The president addresses the nation on developments related to the country’s response to the pandemic

President concedes that lockdown has hurt, but uncontrolled pandemic could have caused ‘irreversible damage’

On the eve of the annual Mining Indaba where President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to speak, SA's mining industry lambastes ...

He says rich countries have a humanitarian obligation to help vaccinate poorer nations, but it is also in their ...

Population immunity in SA might never be achieved, says DA

Premier says his involvement in corruption scandal is the result of a mistake in a judgment

In a sub-study of 6,000 volunteers in SA, the vaccine was 89% effective, with 95% of cases in the SA trial infected ...

Government could consider lifting restrictions within two weeks if transmission keeps falling

The SA 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant is estimated to be 50% more contagious than older lineages

Discovery Health has said medical schemes are ready to go, but other schemes say there is still uncertainty and that ...

Health department director-general Sandile Buthelezi says the tender will be open to all eligible companies

Nearly 200 doctors, 325 nurses and 200 other health workers are unemployed, according to Hire our Medical Heroes

The country’s medicines regulator will take 10-14 days to clear the batch before it will be distributed to the provinces

The advocate was arguably best known for defending the former president in his 2006 rape trial

The Gates Foundation has provided direct support to vaccine manufacturers to enable them to produce shots developed by ...

Ivermectin is a cheap, off-patent, anti-parasitic drug not registered for human use in SA, but which has piqued the ...

The January figure is triple the number of natural deaths usually seen at this time of year

The vaccine will be checked by regulators before it is administered

Global vaccine initiative Gavi estimates that countries have bought at least 800-million more doses than they need

Scale and pace of landmark National Healthcare Insurance in question for the first time

US President Joe Biden is taking an aggressive approach to combating the spread of the virus

The pro-business budget is divorced from the realities of ordinary South Africans, says Cosatu

A sharp drop in infections, including in SA, brings hope but masks signs of resurgence in parts of Europe

Britain is having to compete with New York and Amsterdam to keep London popular as a financial centre

The global virtual events market is expected to grow from just under $100bn in 2020 to $400bn by 2027, Grand View ...

Epidemiologist and public health experts say the Covaxin approval was rushed, but efficacy data from a trial on 26,000 ...

US Food and Drug Administration's panel of independent experts meets on Friday to decide whether to approve the shot

Rather than gradually being wound back, some quarantines are approaching permanency

The US wants to cut down its reliance on China, and other adversaries, but the process is likely to take months

Fed chair tells Senate banking committee US recovery is far from complete but vaccine rollout is a reason for optimism

After success in curbing the spread of Covid-19 in 2020, the central European nation now joins Slovakia in asking for ...

A no-fault lump-sum compensation will be paid to settle any claims of serious side effects until June 30 2022

Biden adviser Anthony Fauci cautions against complacency as officials race to inoculate the population against ...