As SA prepares for the second phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout next Monday, the department of health has launched a service to register for the vaccine via WhatsApp or USSD. The rollout is expected to run until October 17, and will…
SA has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million Covid-19 vaccine doses the company had sent in early February, The Economic Times reported on Tuesday, a week after the country said it will put on hold use of…
President Cyril Ramaphosa says details of the deals into which the government enters with vaccine manufacturers will be released as and when negotiations are concluded and when non-disclosure agreement terms have been lifted. Ramaphosa…
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday allayed the fears of many South Africans, saying the Treasury would have the money to fund the much-anticipated Covid-19 vaccine. “There is no way we can say, when it comes to saving the lives of South…
AfriForum and Solidarity have instructed their legal teams to prepare a case challenging the government’s proposed monopoly on the buying and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. The two organisations said on Friday they want to ensure…
Health minister Zweli Mkhize on Thursday announced that the country will receive its first million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine this month. Mkhize was addressing the portfolio committee on health on the country’s Covid-19 vaccine…
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi has become the latest high-ranking leader of the ANC and its alliance partners to sow doubt over Covid-19 vaccines. Losi, addressing the ANC Women’s League Charlotte Maxeke intergenerational dialogue on…
The government will not force anyone to take the Covid-19 vaccine. That was the message from health minister Zweli Mkhize, who briefed parliament’s portfolio committee on health on Thursday. Mkhize was grilled by committee members who…
SA’s plan to acquire an initial supply of Covid-19 vaccine by February is improbable and not feasible, say health experts. Health minister Zweli Mkhize outlined the country’s vaccine rollout plans on Sunday evening and said there was a…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni recently tweeted himself into hot water when he accused DA “loud mouths” of spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine, saying he would ask EFF leader Julius Malema to “deal with them.” The minister…
SA’s largest pharmaceutical group‚ Aspen‚ has secured a Covid-19 vaccine deal with Johnson & Johnson. The pharmaceutical group announced on Monday that the Covid-19 vaccine would be produced at its existing sterile facility in Port…
Active Covid-19 cases have shot up by 6% in Gauteng since the lockdown regulations were dropped to level 1, an increase “noted with concern” by the provincial health department. “There is still no vaccine, the only way we can contain the…
Almost a fifth of the 474 South Africans screened for SA’s Covid-19 vaccination trial were excluded from participation due to underlying conditions, including untreated hypertension, a lead researcher told Times Select. Sub-investigator…
The first South African citizen has just taken part in an international Covid-19 vaccination trial. Junior Mhlongo, 24, of Soweto has just been injected with what South African medical scientists and vaccinologists hope will stop the…
The first Covid-19 vaccine trial to be greenlighted in Africa has officially begun in South Africa. Wits University in collaboration with Oxford University and the Oxford Jenner Institute are focusing on developing a vaccine that will…
