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What is Professor Salim Abdool Karim’s new job? The Council was established earlier in April, to help guide WHO’s research. The nine-member team comprises of internationally renowned experts from around the world – and Professor Karim is proudly flying the flag for South Africa. “I am looking forward to participating in this council providing scientific advice to WHO on future developments in health that the world needs to be better prepared for. Pandemics such as Aids and COVID-19 have highlighted the important role of science in global health.” | Professor Salim Abdool Karim ‘A ...

Koleka Mlisana’s career in microbiology started with something small. More than three decades in the field later, the decision she downplays as a small sacrifice led to her being one of the scientists at the forefront of South Africa’s stand against the HIV and Aids epidemic, and now the Covid-19 pandemic.   Born in Mthatha 59 years ago, the new co-chair of the ministerial advisory committee (MAC), the brains trust advising the government on the country’s response to Covid-19, got into medicine because “there were very few options to choose from” at the time. “If you were doing ...

The first vaccines, he said, will go to 1.2 million front-line health workers. South Africa is the continent’s viral hotspot, with 1.4 million confirmed cases since the virus turned up in the country in March. The nation experienced the start of a second wave -- featuring a new variant that is significantly more contagious -- in late December, but the peak of that wave appears to be subsiding. Current vaccines are expected to work on the South African variant, called 501.V2, said the head of the nation’s coronavirus task force, Dr. Salim Abdool Karim. The rest of the continent is awaitin...

English By Anita Powell Share on Facebook Print this page JOHANNESBURG - On an unusually dreary Johannesburg day, a figurative ray of sunshine: the arrival of the first pallets of coronavirus vaccines that will, in about two weeks, begin making their way into the arms of South Africans. President Cyril Ramaphosa and other dignitaries stood on the tarmac, masked and under dark umbrellas in the driving rain, as the Emirates flight carrying the first vaccine shipment landed at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport Monday afternoon. T...

Government may have to review current lockdown restrictions and consider further measures to curb the exponential spread of the Covid-19 virus, says health…