Coronavirus watch

Mkhize said 288,368 health workers had received their Covid-19 vaccinations by 6.30pm on Friday, which means that 4,739 ...

The country is still on track with its vaccination strategy, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday.

Speaking on SAfm on Friday, SA Health Products Regulatory Authority CEO Dr Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela said they were ...

Health minister Zweli Mkhize updated the nation on the vaccine rollout in a media briefing on Thursday. Mkhize said he ...

SA recorded 1,366 new Covid-19 cases and 62 deaths in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on ...

The Serum Institute of India has fully refunded SA for 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine which had not ...

The New Development Bank of the BRICS group of nations has approved a second $1 billion loan to SA's government to ...

'We want to continue for at least the next eight weeks to delay the third wave,' the head of the provincial health ...

Health workers have called on the government to speed up its vaccination programme, which they feel is going at a slow ...

The Serum Institute of India will still supply the AstraZeneca vaccine to Africa through the Covax vaccine-sharing ...

A team of experts is helping the University of Pretoria contain an outbreak, while cases are low at Wits and ...

One of the first Covid-19 patients to receive a lung transplant in SA has died.

SA recorded 756 more Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, as well as 79 deaths.

One of the glaring lessons highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic is the urgent need for universal health coverage to ...

Pharmacists and doctors are permitted to make small batches of medicine containing ivermectin on prescription from a ...

An ambitious covid-19 vaccine roll-out plan which seeks to see up to seven million people vaccinated before winter ...

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize announced on Tuesday that the deal to bring in 20 million Pfizer vaccines had been ...

Throngs of prospective students - many not wearing masks - jostled for space at Durban University of Technology on ...

DA shadow minister of health Siviwe Gwarube described the rollout as “marred by breathtaking tardiness”.

Tanzania’s new president Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Tuesday that her government would form a committee for scientific ...

A special provincial funeral for the first premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Frank Mdlalose, will take place on Thursday at ...

Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global ...

There were eight Covid-19 related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the latest health ministry figures.

Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko on Saturday warned that more Covid-19 infections could be expected as ...

Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba used his Easter sermon in Cape Town on Saturday to lob missives against the ...

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 ...