Covid-19

Patients at a Knysna clinic wait outside for hours to get medication

Health department says it could soon be using a nearby church hall to dispense medication to prevent patients crowding at the clinic’s gates

Men should spend on average 50 minutes more a day on household duties, report finds

Only then would men do 50% of the unpaid care work

Why is the government in such a muddle over vaccination?

Decisions are chaotic and lack transparency

Even the rats have left this household now that the cupboard is empty

Brother and sister used to rely on Covid-19 grant

The life and death of an immigrant dog whisperer

South Africa’s vaccine rollout can succeed

But it will require leadership and tough negotiations with drug companies

What is the state of South Africa’s health system? Four easy pieces

Elderly people wait and wait for vaccines in long queue in Gqeberha

Although people arrived from as early as 4:30am, vaccinations only started at about noon

How a truck is helping people in rural areas get registered for vaccination

UNICEF is helping people to register on government’s EVDS system

Covid-19: one month of discipline could save 20,000 lives

The time for social distancing is right now

Upington residents battle to get to vaccination site

Taxi fare is too high for some to afford

No vegetables, no fruit: surviving without the Covid-19 grant

Nocawa Maneli of Gqeberha lives off pap and rice supplied by relatives

Can the vaccine rollout be sped up?

There are several bottlenecks that need to be fixed

“We don’t know what a vaccine is because no one has ever explained it to us” says homeless man

The Eastern Cape health department says it is hiring more staff to help register people for the Covid-19 vaccine

Tim Noakes and BizNews are spreading dangerous falsehoods

They have misrepresented Anthony Fauci’s correspondence and cast aspersions on Glenda Gray

Shack dwellers install their own taps and toilets

8,000 families in Khayelitsha find ways to cope without city services