How the pandemic lockdown in South Africa affected mental health
WHEN SARS-CoV-2 emerged in South Africa, the country took measures to restrict people’s movements and activities, to slow the spread
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How African countries coordinated the response to COVID-19: lessons for public health
THE COVID-19 pandemic spread much slower on the African continent than in the rest of the world, contrary to predictions.
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The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market
MY colleagues and I published the most detailed studies of the earliest events in the COVID-19 pandemic last month in
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Women have always trailed men in research output: how COVID made the situation worse
THE under-representation of women in research is well documented. Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this inequality
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South Africa reports first death causally linked to COVID vaccine
SOUTH Africa’s health regulator reported a causal link between the death of an individual and Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine,
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How COVID-19 lockdown measures — and their outcomes — varied in cities around the world
DURING the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese cities have repeatedly imposed lockdowns following their central government’s stubborn pursuit of Zero-COVID. But lockdowns
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Centaurus: what we know about the new COVID variant and why there’s no cause for alarm
A new COVID variant has recently been detected in several countries including the UK, US, India, Australia and Germany. Called
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COVID gives the fight against malaria, NTDs a shot in the arm
WITH lessons from a rapid COVID-19 response that averted a public health catastrophe, African states are now retooling their healthcare and disaster management systems to confront pesky tropical diseases that still beset the continent.
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Five actions to prepare African countries better for the next pandemic
GLOBALLY, cases of COVID-19 and related deaths are lower in June 2022 than they were at the beginning of the
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Unvaccinated South Africans told us why they weren’t interested in having COVID jabs
SOUTH AFRICA is currently facing a new wave of infections related to the much higher transmissibility of the omicron COVID
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