South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visits coronavirus disease treatment facilities. [Reuters] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday hailed the arrival of the first doses of COVID-19 ...

JOHANNESBURG, May 12 (Reuters) - Africa's public health agency and South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare are in advanced discussions on a long‑term framework to align vaccine demand and supply, ...

Weekly COVID-19 deaths in Africa reached a record peak in the week that ended on 1 August, marking the highest seven-day toll since the onset of the pandemic in the continent, new data from the World ...

LONDON - Developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine’s lead researcher said Sunday. Health ...

Amidst the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, South African nurses are grappling with profound psychological burdens that threaten their wellbeing and the healthcare system's sustainability.

South Africa has now registered more than 500,000 cases of coronavirus, the health ministry announced Saturday, making it by far the hardest-hit country in Africa. The country has become the epicentre ...

A clinical trial of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa indicated that participants who didn’t receive the shot but who had an earlier Covid-19 infection didn’t appear protected against ...

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, ...

Failure to address the needs of the most vulnerable will hasten the infection rate and flame the fires of xenophobia, already too well known in South Africa. The challenges faced by irregular migrants ...

Thousands of people in South Africa are avoiding health facilities, shunning life-saving treatment, out of fear of being infected by coronavirus and being harassed by police. Even mobile clinics that ...