Countries Foreigners and Covid grants: Sassa sets the record straight Cape Town – The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has denied social media claims that its Covid-19 Social... Read more 20 Jan
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World Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on Paris — Five years since Covid-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across... Read more 8 Jan, 2025
Countries Ramaphosa urges Africa to apply Covid-19 lessons in Mpox fight Cape Town – President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged Africa to apply lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic in addressing the... Read more 24 Sep, 2024
Countries Covid PPE supplier must face the music, court rules A company accused of benefitting unlawfully from a contract to supply personal protective equipment during Covid has failed in... Read more 7 Aug, 2024
Business Jobs in SA: the labour market is recovering from Covid – but unskilled and less educated people are still being left behind Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape For more than three decades the South African economy has had very... Read more 20 Feb, 2024
Countries First case of Covid-19 variant ‘Eris’ confirmed in Gauteng Cape Town – The National Department of Health has confirmed the first case of the new Covid-19 “Eris” variant... Read more 18 Aug, 2023
Countries R15-million Covid housing project ruined by fraud Ronnie Mongwe shows the broken walls of his house in Talana housing project. Photo: Bernard Chiguvare By Bernard Chiguvare... Read more 12 Jul, 2023
World WHO warns Covid ‘has not gone away’ Copenhagen — The World Health Organization’s European office on Tuesday warned the risk of Covid-19 has not gone away,... Read more 27 Jun, 2023
World Study shows cheap diabetes drug reduces risk of long Covid Paris – People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for Covid-19 had a 40% lower risk... Read more 9 Jun, 2023