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Translate Home » Coronavirus Updates » ‘In a queue to die’: South Africa nurses work in fear and exhaustion ‘In a queue to die’: South Africa nurses work in fear and exhaustion On Kindly Share This Story: Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) make their way out one of the temporary wards dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Nasrec Field Hospital in Soweto, on January 25, 2021. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP) Nthabeleng, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid pandemic, is ex...

Channels Television   Updated February 1, 2021 An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, on November 17, 2020. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP   South Africa on Monday took delivery of its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines, paving the way to the first phase of inoculation in Africa’s worst-hit country. President Cyril Ramaphosa received one million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, produced by the Serum Institute of India, at Johannesburg’...

Channels Television   Updated January 27, 2021 File photo: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse Bhelekazi Mdlalose (L), 51, performs a swab test for COVID-19 coronavirus on a health worker at the Vlakfontein Clinic in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on May 13, 2020. Michele Spatari / AFP   The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has announced that it will be facilitating a controlled, compassionate access programme for the use of the anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin. The drug which before now, was not approved for human use in South Africa, has gained popularity recently for it...

Text size Pictures by Michele Spatari and Luca Sola. Video by Antoine Demaison and Catherine Schenck "This place is definitely not what it used to be," said Eben Uys, gently wiping the dust from the counter of his bar. Like more than 200 South African microbrewery and restaurant owners, Uys is fighting to keep his business afloat after a new ban on alcohol sales to combat the soaring numbers of coronavirus cases. But like some others he has managed to adapt to survive. The 36-year-old chemistry graduate runs trendy bar and restaurant Mad Giant Brewery in the smart district of Newtown, i...

South Africa is struggling to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by a virulent new local variant of the virus, “Covid fatigue” and a series of “super-spreader” events. On Thursday health officials announced 844 deaths and 21,832 new cases in a 24-hour period, the worst toll yet. Experts believe the second wave has yet to reach its peak in the country of 60 million, and fear healthcare services in the country’s main economic...