SOUTH AFRICA – President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 19:30 tonight, Tuesday 30 March 2021, on developments in the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tyrone Seale, the acting spokesperson to the President, says the address follows meetings in recent days of the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC), the President’s Coordinating Council (PCC) […]
USA – Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases sparred with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on the effectiveness of mask-wearing during a hearing on Thursday.
USA – Several great apes at San Diego Zoo have been given an experimental Covid-19 vaccine designed for animals after an outbreak among gorillas there. Four orangutans and five bonobos each had two doses of a jab made by Zoetis, a veterinary pharmaceutical firm. Eight gorillas at the zoo became the first great apes in […]
DURBAN – On this day last year, South Africa recorded its first coronavirus case. It was on 5 March 2020, when Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that a 38-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man who had just returned from Italy had tested positive. Read more on EWN.
Country music legend Dolly Parton put a modern spin on one of her old classics, ‘Jolene’ as she got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
SOUTH AFRICA – Co-chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, says the government is ready to deal with the third wave of coronavirus infections even though challenges still remain. Read more on the SABC.
Singapore court sent UK man to prison for leaving his quarantine hotel room to see fiancée upstairs Read more on Business Insider.
BEIJING – Die Chinese regering het Donderdag ontken dat hy van Amerikaanse diplomate verwag om anale Covid-19-toetse te ondergaan. Dié ontkenning kom nadat die Kanadees-Amerikaanse tydskrif Vice berig het talle diplomate oor dié prosedure gekla het. BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry denied on Thursday that U.S. diplomats in the country had been required to […]
Here’s what to know this week about the battle against COVID-19. Read more on Popular Science.