Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) – associated with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – has been included in the notifiable medical conditions (NMC) in South Africa, says an IoL report.
The National Institute for...Weekly Roundup
Most patients in Limpopo admitted for burn treatment sustained their injuries from intimate partner violence and are men. The Times reports that this is according to Professor Salathiel Mzezewa, the head of plastic surgery at the Mankweng Complex in...Weekly Roundup
COVID-19 has meant the employment of 13,135 new nurses over South Africa’s nine provinces since the start of the pandemic. Skills Portal reports that this was according to Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, who said at the Society of Private Nurse...Weekly Roundup
The Western Cape plans to equip its ambulance crews with live-streaming video cameras monitored at a central location by operators who can dispatch an "an appropriate support service" when needed, says a Business Insider report. Such body-worn...Weekly Roundup
The KwaZulu-Natal government paid R17m of its total R2.1bn expenditure on COVID-19 to companies for which it has no details, Premier Sihle Zikalala is quoted in a Polity report as saying. This emerged as the provincial government released its report...Weekly Roundup
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released its first report on the global epidemiology and burden of sepsis, estimating that the life-threatening reaction to infection causes 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. Data from 2017 show that sepsis affected...Weekly Roundup
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a network of laboratories to reinforce genome sequencing of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...Weekly Roundup
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced that it has resumed its coronavirus vaccine trial in the UK after suspending it six days ago over potential safety issues but that its trials in the US and other countries were still on hold,...Weekly Roundup
Cancer care across the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was already at “crisis level” before the emergence of COVID-19, due to a shortage of specialist nurses that left thousands of sick patients short of crucial, potentially life-saving...Weekly Roundup
Scientists and physicians are expressing frustration and outrage following reports that top politically appointed Trump administration officials have demanded the right to edit and change weekly US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...Weekly Roundup
Nigerian health workers demanding the payment of a hazard allowance for treating coronavirus patients have gone on strike only a week after doctors in Africa's most populous country staged a walk out.
Polity reports that the Joint Health Service...Weekly Roundup
Besides red flags such as payments to deceased people, duplicate payments and over-payments in the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) COVID-19 Ters benefit scheme, Auditor-General (AG) Kimi Makwetu has flagged government officials applying and...Weekly Roundup
A 46-year-old professor in Argentina, who had reportedly been showing symptoms of coronavirus for weeks, died while teaching an online class, reports New18. Paola De Simone, a professor of government and international relations at the Universidad...Weekly Roundup
AstraZeneca Plc said it has paused global trials, including large late-stage trials, of its experimental coronavirus vaccine due to an unexplained illness in a study participant, reports Reuters Health.
The vaccine, developed with the University...Weekly Roundup
The national Health Department has launched the COVID Alert SA app, which informs people if they have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19, says a Polity report. President Cyril Ramaphosa called the app, which was launched on Wednesday, a...Weekly Roundup
German diagnostic test maker Qiagen has announced that it planned to launch a COVID-19 antigen test that can provide results in 15 minutes and test about 30 samples in an hour, reports Reuters Health. The company said it will launch two versions of...
