A mental health workout – with insights from The Wall Street Journal
”If you wait until a major stressor hits to try and bolster your mental health, it’s like trying to inflate your life raft while you are already drowning’.
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Covid-19: SA faces alcohol ban as spread gathers speed
Covid-19 cases breached 1 million over Christmas. An insider reports government is considering another complete alcohol ban.
Covid-19: KZN study of new strain gets R25m injection
The DSI has pledged R25m towards the KZN Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform to study a new Covid-19 strain.
SA misses Covid-19 vaccine payment
Experts voiced concerns that the SA government has been slow to arrange Covid-19 vaccines, and now a Covax payment deadline has been missed.
Metabolic confusion diet: Can it really help you lose weight? Expert insights
Weight loss is a popular new year’s resolution. For those who want to lose a few “quarantine kilos” the ‘metabolic confusion’ diet might work.
Inside Covid-19: world experts on vaccine roll out in SA, elsewhere; medical breakthroughs; tough restrictions
We hear from Professor Madhi and AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot, who say partners have been engaged to produce hundreds of millions of doses of their vaccine.
Inside Covid-19: Discovery Vitality travel perks; Vitamin B, Zinc could hold answer to keeping worst symptoms at bay
Discovery Vitality announces special discounts, rewards to members set to boost travel and tourism following the Covid-19 slump.
Inside Covid-19: Great Barrington Declaration: good, bad? Can vaccines save us? Discovery Vitality points
In this episode, our partners at Bloomberg explore the obsession with finding a Covid-19 vaccine and why that may not be such a good thing.
Nick Hudson on bogus Covid-19 narratives: long Covid, vaccines, lockdown, masks. All nonsense?
PANDA expert tears apart strategies aimed at protecting people from Covid-19, including: lockdowns, wearing masks, vaccine development.
Covid-19 pandemic in graphs that matter to SAs; death forecast goes up – Douglas Parker
The rate of growth in new infections in South Africa has been steadily falling since mid-July; Douglas Parker’s forecast for the number of deaths has been revised upwards to just under 16,000.