COVID-19

The effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot can drop to 83.7% within four to six months after getting the second dose of its vaccine. This is the latest indication that vaccine-induced …

Reuters Twitter Inc is shutting its reopened offices in the United States, while other big tech companies are making vaccination mandatory for on-campus employees, as the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 …

The US government will ship nearly 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to two of the most populous African countries – Nigeria and South Africa – as the continent battles …

President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed South Africa under Lockdown Level 4 for two weeks, due to the worrying increase in the numbers of COVID-19 infections in the country. As of …

The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has ordered the country into stricter lockdown regulations, as the government gears to tackle the third wave of COVID-19 cases. The President on Tuesday …

Earlier this month, the EU’s vaccination rollout took a sharp U-turn, when 13 European countries briefly suspended the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. This came after dozens of people …

No mention of prices or which countries bought the vaccines. South Africa has concluded the sale of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines it had acquired but did not use to other African …

Kenya drifts into a recession for the very first time in the last  20 years in the third quarter of 2020 as measures introduced by the authorities of the East …

The African Union safeguarded approximately 300 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for the continent, an action towards beginning the facility task of inoculating more than 1.2 billion people with minimal logistical and financial resources. …

As South Africa’s Covid-19 second wave surge continues. The blanket ban on the sale of alcohol will continue, while beaches in Covid-19 hot spots will also remain closed as current …