Covid-19

Reading Time: < 1 minute Some scientists feel that the current Covid-19 pandemic, which has already infected more than 16-million and killed more than 600,000 worldwide, Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Writing in BMJ Analysis, the researchers say that the concept of ‘risk compensation’ is itself the greater threat to public health…

Reading Time: < 1 minute   As coronavirus infections surge, at ferocious speed, across South Africa, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks driving through this Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Masks may offer wearers more protection than they even realize. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute South Africa has become a COVID-19 model for the continent in many ways since it confirmed its index case on 5th March,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute On the first day of medical school this past week, a moment rich with history, 100 students assembled Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Epidemiologist and Director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, said the principle of Ubuntu Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Guinea’s best hope for coronavirus patients lies inside a neglected yellow shed on the grounds of its main hospital: Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute A few days into the coronavirus lockdown, my 85-year-old mother called me sounding very worried.  Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute COVID-19 is affecting every country in the world, with a confirmed caseload of 15 million and a death toll of more than…