Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has denied telling ANC leaders in Pietermaritzburg last week that he was being “targeted” because he was seen as a potential candidate for party president next year. The Sunday Times reported at the weekend…
Labour ward sister Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi became the first healthworker in SA to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Wednesday. She was injected with the Johnson & Johnson vaccination at Khayelitsha District Hospital in the Western Cape,…
The plane carrying SA’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country on February 1. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday night that 1 million doses of the vaccine — from the Serum Institute of India (SII) —…
Top researchers say new variant could have begun in any country, and could appear in any country, and labelling it “the South African variant” was unjust and damaging A group of South African and international scientists have taken a…
For the first time since December 29, SA recorded fewer than 10,000 new Covid-19 cases in a 24-hour period. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Monday said that 9,010 new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the national tally…
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Thursday moved to allay fears that the fast-spreading newly-identified Covid-19 variant circulating in SA was more dangerous than variants in other countries. In a statement on Christmas Eve, Mkhize said…
Data currently suggests ‘no red flags’ around the variant being more fatal than the original variant A new variant of Covid-19 has been identified in SA and is circulating widely — but it is not clear yet whether it is more severe than…
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has returned to the Eastern Cape province for the second time in two weeks as the province battles a resurgence in positive COVID-19 cases – this time to oversee efforts to curb the transmission of the…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has flatly dismissed speculation that he is planning to return the country to a hard lockdown. Despite warnings of a Covid-19 resurgence, including from health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, Ramaphosa said a hard…
From Timeslive.co.za NOMAZIMA NKOSI Though the question of whether the Eastern Cape health department should be placed under administration has come up in parliament, health minister Zweli Mkhize says he is “not yet there”. Mkhize, who…
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has given the use of dexamethasone on critically ill Covid-19 patients the green light. A trial study in the UK found that this anti-inflammation drug can save one in eight patients who are on ventilators…
