Mandatory COVID-19 jabs for specific groups are being discussed by the ministerial advisory committee on vaccines, says its chair, Prof Barry Schoub, reports Sunday...South Africa
The government's “total ineptitude” came under fire, with from eminent vaccine and infectious diseases experts Prof Shabir Madhi of Wits University calling on the...South Africa
There has been yet another vaccine fumble, this time over the Novavax vaccine writes MedicalBrief. Health Minister Mkhize told parliament that the ministerial advisory...
March 31st, 2021The reasoning behind the National Department of Health and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines refusing to use the AstraZeneca vaccine locally are...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has submitted a Public Access to Information Act (PAIA) application to the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department (DoH) in a bid to obtain its...Coronavirus Watch
Findings of a study in the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial have been published. This is a landmark study in so far as being the first to raise the alarm that,...
March 17th, 2021Despite a national Health Department statement this week that the on-selling of South Africa's Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine stocks is virtually concluded, debate continues...
Results of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa and UK have confirmed high levels of efficacy against the original and variant COVID-19. The results show...
March 3rd, 2021Professor Shabir Madhi, eminent Medical Research Council vaccinologist and principal investigator in the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trial locally, has urged the Health...
Emeritus Professor Jonny Myers, an occupational health and public health medicine specialist in the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research at the...
