A pandemic preparedness strategy should be a high-level, cross-cutting mechanism to coordinate the national components of a robust public health initiative that plans for future pandemics and activates emergency responses when a new pandemic risk develops.
Experts have come out to allay fears that the Pfizer vaccine is unsafe and may cause harmful side-effects after social media posts about adverse events following vaccination recently went viral.
While SA authorities have long said there is sufficient vaccines in stock to give those in need of the jab, experts say the impact of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on supply of Covid-19 vaccines and PPE to Africa is still unknown.
To protect people and the environment from the well-documented toxic harms caused by mercury, more than 130 members of the Minamata Convention agreed to a global ban on the manufacture and trade of cosmetic products containing more than 1 part per million of mercury from January 2021.
As the country commemorated Youth Day on Wednesday, EFF leader Julius Malema launched a scathing attack on government, instructing his members to defy lockdown regulations until more coronavirus vaccines were procured.