Coronavirus watch

The government wants the public's input into how to handle Covid-19 epidemic and other diseases after the national ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation soon to outline how the country will manage the Covid-19 pandemic ...

The department of health has proposed face masks continue to be a requirement in certain areas once the new draft ...

The labour department published new legislation this week, strengthening employers powers to require their workers to ...

The state of disaster is harming jobs and increasing poverty while providing no benefit at all. It must end immediately.

The highest Covid-19 positivity rate is now among children between 10 and 14, health minister Joe Phaahla said on ...

“The findings indicate that SA is moving into the convalescent phase of the Covid-19 pandemic — the recovery phase. ...

About 100,000 doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine are at risk of being destroyed by the end of this month due to slow ...

There were 1,853 new Covid-19 cases recorded across SA in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Thursday.

While SA authorities have long said there is sufficient vaccines in stock to give those in need of the jab, experts say ...

No Covid-19 deaths were recorded in SA in the past 24 to 48 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases ...

March 23 will mark exactly two years since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that SA would go on 21-day hard lockdown ...

Covid-19 can cause the brain to shrink, reduce grey matter in the regions that control emotion and memory, and damage ...

The Department of Health hoped that by the end of February the positivity rate of Covid-19 infections would be lower ...

While the death rate may be low and the recovery rate from Covid-19 high, experts continue to advocate for getting the ...

Health minister Joe Phaahla said alternative regulations will cover surveillance and control of notifiable diseases, ...

SA recorded 2,411 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Thursday.

Kaizer Chiefs' marketing director Jessica Motaung says the club are "very confident" of winning their arbitration case ...

There was drama at the Nelspruit magistrate's court on Thursday morning as a man entered the courtroom carrying ...

A group of Durban University of Technology students slept on the pavement outside the Berea campus on Tuesday night as ...

The health department has reduced the time between first and second doses of Pfizer vaccine from 42 days to 21 days.

A R182bn tax windfall boosted by a commodity boom has resulted in a slight improvement in public finances, giving the ...

Though SA is over the peak of its Omicron wave, new infections have stabilised at about 3,000 a day, a higher level ...

Research has found those who take immunosuppressive drugs do not fare worse than others, on average, when hospitalised ...

Uganda plans to impose fines on people who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and those who fail to pay could be ...

The health department has clarified that those who got their initial jabs of the Covid-19 vaccine outside SA can soon ...

The KwaZulu-Natal health portfolio committee is satisfied with the progress made by the Vryheid District Hospital in ...

Gauteng premier David Makhura has placed infrastructure development at the centre of growing the province's ...

SA's health department is changing the Covid-19 vaccination rules to try to increase uptake as inoculations have ...

People who are vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine can from this week get either a Pfizer or J&J booster shot.

Ninety-two people were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

According to NICD, typhoid may have similar symptoms to Covid-19 and the regular cough, cold and flu, so it is ...

The World Health Organisation on Friday announced the first six African countries to be part of the "hub and spoke" ...

Excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic account for one in 200 South Africans overall and one in 25 over-60s, ...

Young males who are vaccinated against Covid-19 have a significantly reduced risk of falling ill from myocarditis and ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there is little chance of you getting Covid-19 from swimming in a public pool ...

Fourteen months and 78 straight positive tests later, he is still alive - and still battling to shake off Covid-19.

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, minster in the presidency for women, youth and persons with disabilities, thought she would ...

Three local innovators have produced a smart and self-cleaning mask, vouching for its effectiveness against many skin ...

“Mindful of the proven benefits of the grant, we will extend the R350 SRD grant for one further year to the end of ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has reported 3,169 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday announced the government’s intentions to end the national state of disaster.

The World Health Organisation says alcohol-based sanitizers can be used in religions where alcohol is prohibited

Thermal scanners are effective in detecting people who have a fever but cannot detect those who are infected with ...

Gauteng accounted for 1,249 of SA's 3,628 Covid-19 cases identified in the past 24 hours, National Institute for ...

The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is now the dominant Covid-19 variant in SA and has been detected in multiple other ...

The World Health Organisation says alcohol-based sanitizers can be used in religions where alcohol is prohibited

Vaccination rates are rising sharply among the elderly in Hong Kong, lifting from a relatively low base as an ...

The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine produced at the World Health Organization-backed vaccine hub in South Africa could take ...

When President Cyril Ramaphosa convenes the National Coronavirus Command Council next week, he will receive a report ...

Health minister Joe Phaahla has appointed a five-member appeal committee to adjudicate a challenge to the Covid-19 ...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the likelihood of Covid-19 being spread on shoes and infecting ...

It is the first mRNA vaccine designed, developed and produced at lab scale on the African continent.

The change from a decline to a plateau is likely linked to the opening of schools, and human movement at the tail end ...

Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter has rued the club's nightmare Covid-19 outbreak in December, a repercussion of which ...

South African private sector activity rose slightly in January as the Omicron wave of Covid-19 cases receded, lifting ...

The WHO says that there is no evidence supporting claims that people can get Covid-19 from eating fruits and vegetables.

The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron has been found in five African countries, a World Health Organisation scientist said on ...

Solidarity contends that the ongoing extension of the Covid-19 state of disaster is irrational.

Cabinet has approved to scrap rotational learning and for all primary school kids to go back to class full-time.

While further studies are needed to understand if second-hand smoke can lead to the spread of Covid-19, experts say it ...

SA recorded just more than 3,000 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Tuesday.

Today marks 678 days, nearly two years, since the country was placed on lockdown in the war against the Covid-19 ...

This is the second case involving mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations in the workplace to be heard by the Commission for ...

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has tested positive for Covid-19, his department said on Friday.

Deputy president David Mabuza used his Christmas message on Friday to encourage those still sceptical about Covid-19 ...

There were 21,157 new Covid-19 recorded across the country in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Thursday.

The health department is implementing booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccines.

Pointless Covid-19 testing has become a public health threat as the Omicron variant continues to deliver a wave of mild ...

While many have developed persistent Covid-19 symptoms long after getting the virus, a condition known as "long Covid", ...

People who are vaccinated against Covid-19 have a greater chance of recovering should they contract the coronavirus, ...

KZN recorded 5,411 and the Western Cape 4,609 of the 21,099 new Covid-19 cases - compared with 3,807 recorded in ...

However, those who are admitted have no significantly lower chance of experiencing severe disease, they say.

The association of Covid-19 variants with SA have damaged the country's brand reputation as a tourist destination.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has ended a week of self-isolation after testing positive for Covid-19, his office said on ...

Minister of mineral resources and energy Gwede Mantashe has tested positive for Covid-19.

The isolation period for Covid-19 patients with symptoms should be reduced from 10 days to seven, the ministerial ...

The Omicron variant of Covid-19, revealed by SA scientists just 23 days ago, has been reported in 89 countries, the ...

New Zealand authorities on Monday said they had linked a 26-year-old man's death to Pfizer Inc's Covid-19 vaccine after ...

A Kenyan court has temporarily halted the government's plan to require Covid-19 vaccination for access to public ...

French biotech firm Valneva said on Thursday its Covid-19 vaccine candidate was efficient as a booster for people who ...

A clinical trial in eight sub-Saharan countries will be the first to specifically evaluate the efficacy of a Covid-19 ...

The Omicron variant was estimated to be 2.9% of the Covid-19 variants circulating in the United States as of December ...

Two of Gauteng’s biggest hospitals have sounded the alarm amid a surge in Covid-19 admissions, with one stating that it ...

For three months last year during Covid-19 Ncumisa Dyantyi, 29, had to take off her uniform and bathe herself first ...

The cost of Covid-19 testing – set at R850 per test by some private laboratories – is being investigated by the ...

Kaizer Chiefs have asked the Premier Soccer League to postpone their four matches in December due to an outbreak of ...

Saturday marks exactly a year since President Cyril Ramaphosa effected the Covid-19-enforced national lockdown; and ...

Saturday marks exactly a year since President Cyril Ramaphosa effected the Covid-19-enforced national lockdown; and ...

The restrictions brought upon by the lockdown regulations forced many small business owners to rethink their business ...

When the President extended the country’s first hard lockdown, a pastor had to rely on handouts and reprieve on his ...

A cook-off challenge between friends to get rid of the lockdown boredom has given a Joburg couple a new lease on life ...

Sonja Le Roux, a bus company owner, is worried that the anticipated third wave of the Covid-19 that is expected in ...

Life has not been the same for a 35-year-old man who was retrenched during lockdown and could no longer afford to pay ...

On March 5, 2020 health minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the country had its first confirmed case, a man who was ...

"A 38-year-old male who travelled to Italy with his wife. They were part of a group of 10 people and they arrived back ...

Just a month after they were released from a quarantine site in Limpopo, twins Mvuzo and Mvuyisi Nkcosolwana-Vili were ...

As SA reached a grim milestone of recording more than 50,000 Covid-19 deaths this week, relatives of some of the people ...

Limpopo health MEC Ramathuba says the decision to allow repatriated South Africans from Wuhan to be quarantined at the ...

Two months after flying an SAA flight on a historic mission to repatriate South Africans from a Chinese city that was ...

In an interview with Sowetan this week ahead of the commemoration of the anniversary of the first case of Covid-19 ...

The Gauteng government had its hands full and in some cases needed the help of law enforcement agencies including ...