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The United Kingdom was the first to close its borders to southern Africans last Thursday, just hours after the Health Department confirmed the new coronavirus variant.

Pippa Hudson chats to Eyewitness News reporter Kgomotso Modise about the Health Ministry's media briefing.

Government had initially set a 70% vaccination target for all adults by next month but that seems highly unlikely.

Image: ReutersScientist in a lab working over medicines. Discourse around the origins of COVID-19 or its source tracing investigation is the terrain of qualified Scientists and politics should never be allowed space to interrupt scientific research work. This is the view of leading international Scientists including South Africa’s Prof Salim Abdool Karim, the director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). He was recently in a frank conversation with the Ch...

SA recorded 9 149 new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, the highest number of daily infections since January.

Prof Karim puts ’monstrous’ Morningside building under the microscope By Mervyn Naidoo Share Durban - He leads the country’s scientific war against the Covid-19 pandemic, but Professor Salim Abdool Karim has also availed time to join a long-running legal fight to fell a high-rise Morningside building, regarded as a “monstrosity” by some. A “bulky” nine-storey development on 317 Currie Road, which “dwarfs” surrounding buildings and blocks out some aff...

Lets work together to beat Covid-19: Prof Karim Updated Andrew Robertson Share this: The co-chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19 says the only way to conquer the pandemic is if everyone works together.  Andrew Robertson Professor Abdool Karim was speaking at UKZNs Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine - while reflecting on the past year and highlighting key issues relating to the coronavirus.  Today is the eve of South Africa marking one year since the first case was detect...

The coronavirus was discovered in Wuhan, China, in 2019.