Students to shut down SA universities over govt funding
A student movement plans to shut down SA’s 26 state-owned universities until the government meets demands including clearing debt.
A student movement plans to shut down SA’s 26 state-owned universities until the government meets demands including clearing debt.
Madhi ‘urged authorities to continue using the shot to cut death, hospitalisation rates and the chance of further virus mutations’, reports Bloomberg.
‘In my view the proposed Covid-19 strategy is not a strategy, but rather an aspirational goal. And an unrealistic one at that’, writes Professor Madhi.
In this episode, we hear from Prof Venter of Wits, who warns the Covid-19 vaccine may not be administered in SA as soon as we thought.
University of the Witwatersrand has released a study claiming that South African hospitals have understated the number of Covid-19 deaths
After a participant fell ill last week, the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials were put on hold globally. Now, the vaccine trials have been approved to resume.
One of the country’s top medical experts on Covid-19, including vaccines, picks up on high Western Cape death rates – and a study on immunity in townships.
Professor Cheryl Cohen of Wits University is exploring the insidious spread of Covid-19 among people who don’t show any signs of infection.
Shabir Madhi’s unit was selected by Novavax to run a critical 2b trial of its Covid vaccine. It could put Africa at the front of the vaccine queue.
A second Covid-19 vaccine showing great promise is under trial in SA. Novavax says its vaccine could begin the final stage of testing by September.