Media and COVID-19
11 Jun 2020 | Vaccine manufacturing will test Africa's willingness to collaborate
Africa's adversities highlight the importance of biomedical science - and in particular, the ability to develop and manufacture vaccines - for Africa&...
9 Jun 2020 | Fita brings in its own medical experts to challenge ban on cigarette sales
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) has attached two reports from medical professionals showing that banning the sale of tobacco pro...
9 Jun 2020 | Dr Saahier Parker on Metro FM
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9 Jun 2020 | Hunger, stress grows, yet support for Ramaphosa remains high
TimesLIVE reported that a vast majority of South Africans approve of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite grow...
9 Jun 2020 | More needed to help Covid-19-struck small-scale farmers
Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about how to rebuild, and ultimately, strengthen our economy, which has been severely affected b...
8 Jun 2020 | Comorbidities raise concerns
Comorbidity and comorbid conditions are common medical terms that refer to one or more diseases or conditions that occur along with another condition ...
8 Jun 2020 | Covid-19: Eastern Cape fears as worst predicted
SA has already been hit hard by the impact of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown declared by the government, but indications are the worst may still...
8 Jun 2020 | Govt cops flak from tripartite alliance for ‘heavy handed’ lockdown
The tripartite alliance is warning the government that the lockdown’s legitimacy is at risk given the unintended consequence of favouring some p...
8 Jun 2020 | Lockdown is a psychological pressure cooker, data shows
SA is in a ‘moment of psychological crisis’, according to a recent surveySA is in a state of psychological crisis as a result of the exten...
8 Jun 2020 | Social scientists feel left out in Covid-19 fight
Social scientists have felt excluded in the Covid-19 fight, lamenting that a government information blackout had disabled their research to fully unde...