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US ending WHO funding may harm African polio, HIV/Aids and malaria programmes
President Donald Trump’s decision to stop US funding for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the middle of the coronavirus fight could harm other...
UK to collect blood for trialling of convalescent plasma transfusions
The UK is preparing to collect the blood from COVID-19 survivors to investigate if convalescent plasma transfusions could improve an infected patient’s speed of...
Imperative to record ethnicity of COVID-19 patients, says chair of BMA
The UK government’s failure to record and publish real-time data on the ethnicity of COVID-19 patients is a scandal that is endangering lives. The...
12 staff test positive at third COVID-infected private hospital
Following last week's shut down of Netcare's St Augustine's Hospital in Durban because of a COVID-19 outbreak that claimed five lives and this week's...
'Disingenuous' Limpopo Health MEC releases forcibly quarantined doctors
Two doctors forcibly quarantine in a Limpopo hospital after testing positive for COVD-19 have been freed, but may pursue legal action against the provincial...
HPCSA slow to respond to urgent need to mobilise extra healthcare personnel
SA's medical regulator, which for weeks delayed the move to telemedicine to deal with COVID-19, has been slow to mobilise the skills of the...
SA has less than half the ventilators it will need, says Health Department
South Africa has less than half the ventilators that the health department estimates it will be needed to treat patients at the peak of...
Lack of testing raises fears that pandemic epicentre is moving to Africa
As the daily number of new COVID-19 infections appears to be falling in parts of the world, some fear the epicentre of the virus...
Furore over Trump's withdrawal of WHO funding
Donald Trump has been condemned for putting countless lives at risk when he announced the US is freezing payments to the World Health Organisation...
China's 6-day delay in warning set the stage for the COVID-19 pandemic
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan...