A local pharmaceutical company has received permission from the medical regulator to import half a million chloroquine phosphate tablets for use in severely ill...Coronavirus Watch
Chinese scientists at the front of that country’s outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not been particularly accessible to foreign media, says a...Coronavirus Watch
To wear or not to wear? That has become the key question during the pandemic as the face mask has become a symbol of our changed lives under coronavirus. Still, months...
March 25th, 2020
Despite exponential daily increases in coronavirus infections over the past few day, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize is confident that the national lockdown will see a...
The Commonwealth has developed a coronavirus tracker that shows daily cases in member countries. The tracker collects data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and...Coronavirus Watch
South Africa is one of 10 countries involved in an urgent global trial announced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to identify the most effective treatment for...Coronavirus Watch
With some 850,000 Taiwanese living and working in China, Taiwan could have been one of the hardest hit when the coronavirus outbreak emerged in late December in Wuhan,...
March 11th, 2020
South Africa, with 13 imported coronavirus cases, currently fits the World Health Organisation's Transmission Scenario Two. Dr Richard Kaplan, writing for MedicalBrief,...
After years of battling one of the most deadly Ebola virus outbreaks in the world in the Democratic Republic of Congo, second only to the West African epidemic of...Infectious Diseases
HPV vaccination has higher health benefits and is more cost-effective than previously estimated, according to a study. The research, led by the London School of...
