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Pandemic Drives Surge in Digital Health Use Across Africa says Vodacom
Across Africa, there has been an exponential rise in the number of people engaging with digital health services through their smartphones, creating a vast potential for countries to deliver access to healthcare digitally. This was a key finding of Vodacom’s…
FDA Grants “Full Approval” to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, its very first full approval for any SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Following the approval, the Pfizer jab will now be marketed as “Comirnaty”, a two-dose inoculation…
SA Govt Opens COVID-19 Vaccinations for All Adults from Friday
All South Africans aged 18 years and older will be eligible to get their COVID-19 vaccinations from Friday, 20 August. eNCA broadcaster Heidi Giokos broke the news on Twitter. BREAKING: Cabinet has approved the vaccination of persons aged between 18…
80% of SAns May Have Already Had COVID-19, According to Discovery
As many as four out of five South Africans may have already contracted the novel coronavirus, a statistic that could indicate that the country is one of the hardest hit by the disease in the world, according to Emile Stipp,…
SA Govt is Considering Opening Vaccinations to Over 18’s by End of Week
The government of South Africa is reportedly in considerations to open COVID-19 vaccinations to all adults over 18 by the end of the week, just over a week earlier than the planned 1 September date. Final decisions on this matter,…
How Smartphones Are Being Used to Test for Malaria in Uganda
The University of Glasgow has been working with the Vector Control Division of the Uganda Ministry of Health – collaborating for several years on new ways to achieve vital recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO) outlined in a 2018…
South Africans Under 35 Can Now Book for Vaccinations with Discovery
South Africans aged between 18 – 34 were previously informed that they could only register for their COVID-19 jabs in September, however now it seems that under 35s are managing to register for vaccinations through healthcare insurance provider Discovery. If…
Kenya Threatens Punishment for Non-Vaccinated Government Employees
Kenya will require all government employees to receive at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before 23 August or face disciplinary action, according to the head of the East African country’s public service, Joseph Kinyua. According to a letter,…
Nigeria Receives 4-Million Moderna COVID-19 Jabs from US
Nigeria has received 4-million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the US as the most populous country in Africa ramps up efforts to battle a rising third wave of infections. UNICEF officials received the vaccines, which arrived on two…
How Digital Tech is Making Healthcare Smarter
It may sound counterintuitive but one of the major challenges governments across the globe faced at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was actually keeping people away from hospitals. In part, because of an inability to scale up human labour…
Pretoria Veterinary Hospital Gets First MRI Scanner for Animals
The Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH) of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science has acquired its first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. This means that the hospital now no longer has to make special arrangements with human…
Vaccination Registrations for South Africans Aged 18 – 34 Announced
According to President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s vaccine rollout will open for people aged 18 to 34 from 1 September 2021. People in the age range wanting to be vaccinated can register then. Speaking during an address to the nation…
South Africa to Produce Over 100 Million Pfizer Vaccines A Year
Pharmaceutical heavyweights Pfizer and BioNTech have agreed to partner with South Africa’s Biovac Institute to produce their COVID-19 vaccines at a facility in Cape Town. First announced on Wednesday, this deal will see more than 100-million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19…
Why SA Healthcare Providers Need to Adopt Long-Term Telehealth Strategies
Only one doctor is available for every 1,250 patients in South Africa, across its vast expanse, with an urgent need to increase its cohort of specialists. This shortage of medical professionals costs the country in terms of the negative impact…
South African Company Says Its Copper Face Masks Can Help Beat COVID
Copper Fresh, a Johannesburg-based company has innovated a new solution to possibly curb the spread of COVID-19 through its pink face masks. The company says it is making one of Africa’s first face masks capable of self-sanitising and killing the…
Senegal Partners with Major Biotechs to Produce Rapid COVID-19 Tests
The Pasteur Institute in Senegal is set to produce rapid antigen tests for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 in patients from early 2022 with the help of a new tech transfer partnership with two international biotech companies. The Institute, based in Dakar, will…
