The World Health Organisation has urged countries not to reimpose national lockdowns in an attempt to stem the spread of Covid-19 due to social and economic repercussions. In an exclusive interview, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, who helps lead…
Wearing face masks, especially in indoor public spaces, is now mandated or recommended in more than 160 countries A new review published in BMJ Analysis has found that despite some concerns, wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of…
Co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is within her powers to make regulations which prohibit the sale of tobacco products during the state of disaster. This was one of the submissions made by…
Agriculture, land reform and rural development (DRDLR) minister Thoko Didiza has announced an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Amathole district on Saturday, where 50 pigs have died. The World Health Organisation for Animal…
Two-day music and lifestyle festival to be moved to a later, unspecified date Volkswagen SA has postponed the third instalment of VIVOnation (April 4-5 2020) music and lifestyle festival, due to health concerns about the coronavirus…
As of tomorrow, South Africans can walk into private laboratories for a coronavirus test without it being done via the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) and doctors. Lancet Laboratories’ clinical virologist Prof Eftyhia…
THE weekly fundraiser held in front of Pick n Pay by the King William’s Town Lions Club took on another dimension on Saturday when people were offered free diabetes screening. Dozens of people grabbed the opportunity and got screened by…
Mother’s battle to have son released highlights care facility crisis in E Cape The locking up of a teenage psychiatric patient at St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth instead of at Grahamstown’s Fort England Psychiatric Hospital has blown…
