Covid-19 Updates
Covid-19 Updates
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WHO updates Covid-19 guidelines
The World Health Organization has updated its guidelines on preventing the spread of Covid-19, focusing on mask-wearing in community settings,…
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SA Covid-19: New subvariant being monitored closely
Scientists are producing more genomes to determine if the new coronavirus variant is spreading. The National Health Department has been…
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SA COVID-19: Health department meeting with scientists over new variant
The health department is meeting with scientists to gather more information about the highly transmissible XBB.1.5 COVID-19 variant. Its tweeted…
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WHO urges globe to exercise caution to prevent new COVID-19 variant from emerging
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that at least 90% of the global population developed some level of immunity to…
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Woman retrenched for refusing Covid-19 vaccine wins her CCMA case
Gauteng woman who was retrenched a year ago for not taking the Covid-19 vaccine has won her case against her…
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COVID-19: US tells pharmas to make boosters targeting BA.4 and BA.5
The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday told vaccine makers that Covid boosters for this fall and winter should…
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South Africa has entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
Confirmed cases of Sars-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two…
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Pfizer sees high demand for Covid-19 pill as profits jump
Pfizer executives said Tuesday they are confident of strong demand for the company’s Covid-19 antiviral treatment amid easing pandemic rules…
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COVID-19: China reports 13 000 cases, most since end of Wuhan’s first wave
China reported 13,000 Covid cases on Sunday, the most since the peak of the first pandemic wave over two years…
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COVID-19: China reports 2 deaths, first in more than a year
China reported two Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, its first in more than a year, underlining the threat posed by an…
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COVID-19: WTO chief hails vaccines IP compromise
The World Trade Organization chief hailed Wednesday a breakthrough between the EU, the United States, India and South Africa on…
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US ships nearly 1.9 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to African nations
The United States shipped nearly 1.9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Mozambique and four other African countries in the latest…
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WHO applauds SA for response in fight against COVID-19
The World Health Organisation has applauded South Africa for its response in the fight against COVID-19. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom…
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AstraZeneca warns on falling COVID treatment sales
British COVID vaccine maker AstraZeneca on Thursday warned that coronavirus product sales and profit margins would drop this year as…
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AU warns of the danger still posed by the COVID-19 pandemic
The Africa Centers for Disease Control And Prevention has warned of the danger still posed by the pandemic, despite many…
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Covid-19: SA records 3 600 cases and 100 deaths in the last 24hrs
SA recorded 3,658 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on…
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Less than 1 700 new Covid-19 cases recorded on Monday
Less than 1 700 new Covid-19 cases recorded on Monday. “Today the institute reports 1 691 new COVID-19 cases that…
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Africa joins race to acquire Pfizer’s COVID-19 Paxlovid pills
Africa’s top public health body said it was in talks with Pfizer about securing supplies of its antiviral COVID-19 pills…
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9 260 new COVID-19 cases, 140 deaths recorded in SA
There have been 9,260 new COVID-19 infections recorded on Friday. Sadly, 140 people succumbed to COVID in the past 24…
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United States records over a million COVID-19 cases in one day
The Omicron Covid-19 variant is wreaking havoc in the US. Data from Johns Hopkins University reveals the country recorded over…
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SA COVID-19: 8 078 new infections, 139 deaths recorded
8,078 new infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours. KwaZulu-Natal is leading in terms of new infections with…
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SA COVID-19: 4 379 new cases, 30 deaths recorded
South Africa records 4,379 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours. The Western Cape is now the country’s epicentre…
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Children aged 15-18 yrs can register on CoWin from Jan 1
Children aged between 15 to 18 years can register online on CoWin from January 1 or can register onsite at…
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Over 4,500 flights cancelled by Christmas day
Over 4,500 flights were cancelled around the world by Saturday and thousands more were delayed as the highly infectious Omicron…
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COVID-19 in SA: 15,465 new cases, three deaths recorded
15,465 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, A further three COVID-19 related deaths have been…
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EU to get 20 million extra vaccine doses to fight Omicron
EU members will get an additional 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the first three months of 2022…
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Omicron Covid-19 cases could be as severe as Delta
A previous Covid-19 recovery provides little shield against infection with the omicron variant, a research team from Imperial College London…
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COVID-19 in SA: Death toll surpasses 90,000 mark
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported 13,147 new COVID-19 cases in South Africa, which brings the total…
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Here’s why more children are testing positive for Covid-19 this time
As the fourth wave emerges, data indicates hospitals are seeing more admissions of children. The South African network for genomics…
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Cook Islands reports first case of COVID-19
The Cook Islands on Saturday recorded its first case of Covid-19 since the pandemic began, as the South Pacific country…
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No Omicron deaths yet, as variant spreads worldwide – says WHO
The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said on…
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WHO warns against blanket travel bans over Omicron coronavirus variant
The WHO, in its latest guidance to authorities and travellers, said that people over 60 years of age and those…
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COVID-19 pandemic impacting control of HIV
Unicef says the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic is deepening the inequalities that help drive HIV infection A recent report says 120,000…
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Pfizer CEO says they’re already working on Covid vaccine targeting Omicron
Pfizer has already started working on a version of its COVID-19 vaccine specifically targeting the new Omicron variant in case…
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New Covid-19 variant omicron symptoms
Patients report tiredness, muscle aches, a ‘scratchy throat’, and cough. A South African doctor who raised the alarm over the…
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New COVID variant shuts borders across the globe
A new, heavily mutated COVID-19 variant spread across the globe on Sunday, shutting borders and renewing curbs as the EU…
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Australia bans travellers from virus-hit Southern Africa
Australia imposed new restrictions on Saturday on people who have been to nine Southern African countries, as the new Omicron…
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Why South Africa gets so many Covid-19 variants of concern
One possible reason South Africa presents Variants of Concern of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 might be because of the…
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EU approves first Covid-19 jab for kids aged 5-11
The EU cleared Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged five to 11 on Thursday, the first jab to…
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WHO: Vaccines reduce COVID-19 transmission by 40%
Covid vaccines reduce transmission of the dominant Delta variant by about 40 percent, the WHO said Wednesday, warning that people…
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South Africa delays delivery of new batch of Covid-19 vaccines due to oversupply
South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines because it now has too…
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First Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by EU begin arriving in Africa- GAVI
The first of nearly 100-million doses of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines being donated by the European Union by year-end…
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Pfizer says COVID-19 shot 100% effective in adolescents after 4 months
Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday their Covid-19 vaccine remained 100 percent effective in children 12 to 15 years old, four…
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South Africa facing delays in Covid-19 vaccine syringe deliveries
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is stepping up efforts to address a looming deficit of syringes for Covid shots,…
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USA’s 1st Black Secretary Of State Colin Powell has succumbed to COVID-19
USA’s 1st Black Secretary Of State Colin Powell has succumbed to COVID-19. Colin Powell, the former United States secretary of…
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201 new COVID-19 cases, 29 more deaths
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 201 new COVID-19 cases in South Africa. A total of 29 more…
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Covid-19 vaccine certificate problems
South Africans have reported problems accessing their Covid-19 vaccine certificates on Friday morning. The vaccine certificate portal officially went live…
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COVID-19 in SA: 768 new cases, 103 deaths recorded
There have been 768 new COVID-19 cases and 103 deaths have been recorded in South Africa in the past 24…
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This is why Covid-19 vaccination numbers are low in South Africa
There is a narrative that vaccine hesitancy fuelled by misinformation and distrust is causing South Africans to avoid getting their…
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Pfizer begins large trial to test its anti-Covid-19 pill
Pfizer has said it had begun a middle-to-late stage clinical trial of a pill to stave off Covid in people…
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