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Health minister Zweli Mkhize was placed on special leave while the investigation into Digital Vibes continued.Image: FREDDY MAVUNDA

Digital Vibes scandal has nothing to do with ANC contest, says Zweli Mkhize

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…

Health minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the registration portal for Covid-19 vaccine will be opened for citizens 60 and older.Image: Anthony Molyneaux

People 60 and older can register for Covid-19 vaccine from Friday

Health minister Zweli Mkhize says the coronavirus vaccine registration portal will be opened on Friday afternoon to all citizens who are 60 and older, as government prioritises those who are most at risk of getting sick or dying of…

Argentina’s Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia looks on during the arrival of 580,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 17, 2021.Image: REUTERS/ MATIAS BAGLIETTO

Argentina health minister resigns after reports of VIP vaccine access

Argentina’s health minister resigned on Friday after reports that people had been able to use connections to get access to Covid-19 vaccines to which they were not entitled. Gines Gonzalez Garcia said in a letter posted on Twitter that…

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa is misinformed, misguided and opportunistic, says ANC MP Dibolelo Mahlatsi. File photo.Image: Simphiwe Nkwali

Holomisa urges Mkhize to hire unemployed pharmacists to assist with Covid-19 vaccine rollout

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has written to health minister Zweli Mkhize asking him to consider hiring 32 unemployed Eastern Cape pharmacists to assist with the rollout of the province’s Covid-19 vaccination programme. In a public letter to…

GETTING THE JAB: Clicks and Dis-Chem plan to offer Covid-19 vaccine shots in their stores once more information on the rollout programme is available

SA’s two biggest pharmacies plan to offer Covid-19 vaccines

REUTERS via TimesLIVE South Africa’s two biggest pharmacy chains Clicks Group and Dis-Chem Pharmacies said they plan to offer Covid-19 shots at their stores and provide storage and distribution facilities in the vaccine rollout programme…

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LISTEN: Health Minister rallies around Eastern Cape’s COVID fight

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…

Health minister Zweli Mkhize says it is a concern that, in the middle of the surge in Covid-19 infections, a health MEC has been asked to step aside because of allegations of being involved in a tender scandal. File photoImage: Thapelo Morebudi/Sunday Times.

‘No room to tolerate corruption’: Zweli Mkhize on Covid-19 criminality

Health minister Zweli Mkhize is adamant that corruption entwined with the country’s Covid-19 pandemic will be rooted out, and those implicated will face the full might of the law. “There is no room to tolerate corruption anywhere, not in…

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said the next two to three weeks were of utmost importance to confirm the downward trend in Covid-19 cases.Image: GCIS

IN QUOTES | Zweli Mkhize stresses opening of windows in taxis to limit spread of droplets

Health minister Zweli Mkhize has stressed the importance of opening windows in taxis to help limit the spread of Covid-19, despite cold fronts around the country. During a social cluster ministerial briefing on Monday, Mkhize urged taxi…