July 28th, 2021Despite a failing COVID-19 programme forcing the Zimbabwean government to allow private hospitals and clinics in infection hotspots to vaccinate, it insists the country...
No fully-vaccinated person under 50 has died from the Delta variant, even though younger age groups make up 90% of cases, a report from Public Health England has shown,...
June 9th, 2021The Sisonke Phase 3b clinical trial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, during which an impressive nearly 290,000 frontline South African health workers were...
May 19th, 2021New cases of COVID-19 are declining in India but the health system is failing and daily deaths continue rising, writes MedicalBrief. There have been horror stories of...
February 10th, 2021For South Africans to get their lives back, they need vaccines by winter and herd immunity against COVID-19, says a Scientists’ Collective of 15 top experts in the SA...
Experts in Russia and the United Kingdom have warned that people should avoid drinking alcohol for a brief period of time when being vaccinated against COVID-19. But...
December 16th, 2020Despite the COVID-19 global mantra of ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’, the world's wealthy nations have not only hogged vaccine supplies coming on-stream...
The United Kingdom has become the first Western country to license a vaccine against COVID, opening the way for mass immunisation with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to...
December 2nd, 2020Some things are bigger than money, and one of them is health, says the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. In a statement it called on leaders to learn from the...
AstraZeneca said Monday, 23 November, that trials showed its coronavirus vaccine AZD1222 was up to 90% effective and that it would immediately apply for early approval...
