Following treatment with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, only 2% of breakthrough infections are severe, according to data in the Sisonke investigation
The SA...Research Africa
The dominant new variant of the COVID-19 virus in South Africa, 501Y.V2, can escape antibodies generated from previous infection. This means that antibodies from people...
March 3rd, 2021Professor Shabir Madhi, eminent Medical Research Council vaccinologist and principal investigator in the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trial locally, has urged the Health...
South Africa is pushing ahead with the planned rollout of the Pfizer vaccine, with experts not overly concerned about the results of a new study showing that the...Weekly Roundup
The latest data released by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) show South Africa's excess deaths during the pandemic have reached 137,731, but have now...News Release
Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), a not-for-profit developing new treatments for drug resistant infections, and Entasis Therapeutics, a...Weekly Roundup
South Africa had a record 10,907 excess deaths from natural causes in the week of 30 December to 5 January, according to the 11 January mortality surveillance report...Weekly Roundup
The Gauteng Health Department is to carry out an antibody survey to determine the rate of COVID-19 infections in the province, reports The Citizen. The department will...News Release
The number of excess deaths in the Eastern Cape continues to rise, with the latest available data released by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)...
September 9th, 2020Expert estimates of South African COVID-19 mortality continue to plummet, with the Actuarial Society of SA (Assa) this week slashing by almost in half an earlier...
