While the rest of the country is corralled behind closed doors, South Africa's COVID-19 heroes are at the frontline in the war. The Times reports on the sacrifices...
April 1st, 2020
A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study concludes that health workers may be underestimating the risk of aerial transmission of COVID-19, while...
April 1st, 2020
Debate is raging over the Imperial College London study that predicted up to half a million COVID-19 deaths and sparked the UK lockdown, with criticisms that it was...
April 1st, 2020
A volunteer team centred at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed and prototyped a low-cost portable mechanical ventilator for use in mass casualty...
April 1st, 2020
A study has found that higher daily step counts were associated with lower mortality risk from all causes. The research team, which included investigators from the...
South Africa’s medicines regulator has warned the public not to use rapid blood tests for COVID-19, saying they are potentially inaccurate and may fail to detect the...News Release
The basic principles underlying the South African government’s implementation of a compulsory lockdown during the fight against the COVID-19 viral pandemic are...Medical Ethics
As hundreds of millions of people, maybe billions, avoid social contact to spare themselves and their communities from coronavirus, researchers are discussing a...Coronavirus Watch
Keeping a two-metre distance from others may not be enough to stop the spread of coronavirus, a new study suggests. Health officials around the world have been urging...
April 1st, 2020
Italy's pressured health services has issued guidelines on the rationing of ventilators and intensive care beds, as patient demand escalates, while in the former chief...
