ELECTIONS CORONAVIRUS: Your daily update
China amended its tobacco monopoly law on Friday to include e-cigarettes, stepping up regulation of the fast-growing vaping industry in the world's largest tobacco market.
A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru's central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said on Friday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday classified the B.1.1.529 variant detected in South Africa as a SARS-CoV-2 "variant of concern," saying it may spread more quickly than other forms.
Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla, says the travel bans imposed on South Africa by certain countries are premature and not in line with the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), has reported 2 828 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 955 328.
Global authorities reacted with alarm on Friday to a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa, with the EU and Britain among those tightening border controls as researchers sought to find out if the mutation was vaccine-resistant.
South Africa is in danger of having two pandemics unless the government, civil society, church, and traditional leaders join forces to educate the public about this looming danger.
The Northern Cape is the latest province to fully migrate to digital terrestrial. Northern Cape is the second province to go digital after the Free State.
The Department of Health is holding a virtual media briefing to give an update on the latest COVID-19 variant called B.1.1.529, which has been detected in South Africa.
Broadcast signal distributor, Sentech, says it does not predict any problems following the migration from analogue to digital in the Northern Cape.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says a new variant of the virus could be driving the noticeable increase in the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country.
A newly identified coronavirus variant that has spread in South Africa is the most concerning that British health officials have yet seen as it has double the number of mutations of the Delta variant, including some associated with evading immune response.
A restored road connecting two ancient Egyptian temple complexes in Karnak and Luxor was unveiled on Thursday in a lavish ceremony aimed at raising the profile of one of Egypt's top tourist spots.
Improving digital trade would provide huge opportunities for British businesses and help boost economic growth, the government's Board of Trade said, setting out how it aims to become a world leader in modern services and online goods.
A shallow and strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the Myanmar-India border region early on Friday, India's National Center for Seismology said.
Britain said it was concerned by a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa on Thursday, which might make vaccines less effective and imperil progress made across the world in fighting the pandemic.
Petroleum giant Shell has refuted claims that it failed to conduct proper environmental impact assessments for its planned, five-month seismic testing project off the Wild Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
Health Minister Joe Phaahla says the government still needs to meet and decide if there will be any need to restrict movement in the wake of the new COVID-19 variant.
The EU's drug regulator approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11 on Thursday, paving the way for them to be given a first shot as Europe struggles to contain a surge in infections.
Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, Tulio De Oliveira, has urged people who are eligible to get the vaccine as it is the best protection against the coronavirus - which is again surging in parts of Gauteng.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has confirmed the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa.
The Health Department’s Acting Director-General, Dr Nicholas Crisp, has reiterated the call for unvaccinated youth to get the COVID-19 vaccine, saying it could help protect them and their loved ones when the fourth wave hits the country. South Africa has requested Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines due to an […]
France is expected to announce that COVID-19 booster shots will be made available to all adults as well as stricter rules on wearing face masks and more stringent health pass checks to curb a new wave of infections, French media reported.
We are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic - that's the warning from the World Health Organisation's Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported 1 275 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 950 035.
Coronavirus infections broke records in parts of Europe on Wednesday, with the continent once again the epicentre of a pandemic that has prompted new curbs on movement and made health experts think again about booster vaccination shots.
Russia announced progress in its Sputnik suite of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with a new version aimed at children and a nasal spray that President Vladimir Putin said he had taken as a booster.
The Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs says the outbreak of avian flu amongst wild seabirds in the province has seen more than 21-thousand dead birds.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is holding a media briefing on recent resurgence of COVID-19 in different areas of the globe.
South Korea reported a new daily record of 4 116 new coronavirus cases for Tuesday, as the country battles to contain a spike in serious cases requiring hospitalisation, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Wednesday.
