South Africa has suffered the latest in a series of setbacks to its Covid-19 vaccination program, with the country’s medical-products regulator saying on Sunday that doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine that were manufactured at a plant in Baltimore, Maryland and awaiting distribution in South Africa cannot be used because of possible contamination.
South Africa is set to expand its nationwide rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations as the country braces for a potential third wave of the coronavirus pandemic that officials fear could materialize in the coming weeks.
The pandemic has jump-started e-commerce in South Africa.
The ability of scientists to successfully adapt Covid-19 vaccines for use against coronavirus variants of concern will turn in part on the ability to spot infectious mutations in the virus’s genetic makeup quickly. For that, a computer that comprehends human language may help.
Like all viruses, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 mutates over time as it commandeers the cells of people it infects to make copies of itself.
South Africa is bracing for a third wave of Covid-19, expected to arrive with the start of winter this June. The predicted rise in infections could rival the deadliness of a wave that only recently subsided.
Researchers in Cape Town are starting local clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine designed to protect people from infection caused by variants of the coronavirus, now and in the future.
South Africa is poised to achieve a milestone in the worldwide response to the coronavirus pandemic when it becomes the first country to administer a Covid-19 vaccine created by the pharma giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) this week.
With a second wave of Covid-19 across Africa appearing to ebb, public health officials are calling on countries to move with urgency to protect health-care workers and others most at risk from the coronavirus before the next surge arrives.
South Africa is recalibrating its rollout of vaccinations against Covid-19 out of concerns that a local variant of the virus may be evading the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which the country had hoped would put it on the path to herd immunity.
Vintners across South Africa may soon be searching for old bottles to hold new wine.
The scramble by South Africa for Covid-19 vaccines is intensifying pressure on the government to square its plans for immunizing the country with reality.
If you’ve ever traveled to South Africa and tried to use your multi-country adapter to recharge your phone or laptop, you may have been surprised that your adapter could not fit into the country’s unique sockets.
The news from Amazon in June that it would add 3,000 virtual customer service jobs in South Africa offered the nation’s pandemic-mired economy a much-needed lift and highlighted the strength of outsourced business services in the country, which ranks consistently among the world’s top destinations for companies in search of a back office.
As the spread of the novel coronavirus in South Africa builds toward a projected peak in the coming weeks, the epicenter of the pandemic is shifting to Johannesburg from Cape Town, leading officials in the country’s largest city to redouble their analysis of data as part of efforts to pinpoint a public-health response.
As recently as February, South Africa’s tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane hailed tourism as an engine of transformation in the country’s economy. Five weeks later, the engine sputtered out as South Africa, like much of the world, had to lock down the country’s borders and economy to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Last week, South African Airways, the state-owned carrier, suffered the latest in a series of financial setbacks after the government rejected a request by practitioners administering a restructuring of the airline for an additional 10 billion rand ($526 million) in funding.
South Africans dealing with the disruption and frustration of a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus are also confronting slowdowns in internet speeds.
South Africa has an unhealthy concern with losing its investment-grade credit rating.
Tea from South Africa’s rooibos bush will soon be infused with a measure of restorative justice.
Just three years ago, residents of the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg were buzzing around the launch of the first Starbucks store in sub-Saharan Africa.
Depending on how (or whether) the UK withdraws from the European Union, South African and Zimbabwean fans of their international cricket teams may have reason to cheer.
The taps are flowing more freely again in Cape Town.
One Wednesday last August, shares of South African internet and media giant Naspers suffered their biggest single-day drop in 10 years based on news from a company a third of the world away.
