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COVID-19 Vaccines

Standard Bank Turns Tail on Vaccine Mandate Firings

One of South Africa's largest banking groups, Standard Bank, has done away with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for its employees. This is after the bank has reportedly already dismissed 40 employees and placed others on "Special Leave" for refusing...

MTN Says All of Its Staff Must Vaccinate After January 2022

MTN, Africa's largest telecom group, says that it will impose a mandatory vaccination policy for all its staff from January 2022, with the group saying via statement: "As part of our commitment to protect the health and safety of...

4 Things You Didn’t Know About SA’s Vaccine Rollout to Teens

South Africa’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla has announced that children and teens between 12 and 17 will now be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The announcement came during a media briefing Friday morning, where Phaahla confirmed that the decision...

SA’s Vaccine Certificate Website Isn’t Working

Today, South Africa's vaccination certificate site has officially gone live. The site has been live since Tuesday, but South Africa's government said that it was merely being tested at the time. Now, vaccinated individuals in Africa's most developed nation can...

South Africans Can Now Get Their Digital Vaccine Passes via This Website

A few days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the Department of Health would begin rolling out digital vaccination certificates and a few weeks after Health Minister Joe Phaahla claimed that the vaccine passes would be made...

Making Vaccines in Africa is Key to COVID-Proofing Continent say Experts

The unprecedented speed of development of the COVID-19 vaccines can be attributed to multiple factors including record levels of international collaboration and swift action on the part of many governments and regulatory bodies to provide a conducive framework. As every...

SA to Issue Digital Vaccine Passports Next Week: What Will This Mean?

According to an announcement made by South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla, digital vaccination passes will be issued to all eligible vaccinated South Africans in less than a week. The country's Department of Health says that currently, the digital vaccine...

Discovery SA is Making Vaccines Mandatory for its Staff

South African health insurer Discovery is making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for all staff from the beginning of next year, following the lead of several major global companies, from banks to airlines, in insisting on inoculation of employees. Lenders CitiGroup and...

Unvaccinated People May Be Banned from Public Facilities in Future, says SA Health Minister

While over 12-million South Africans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, rollout in the country has been slow. Currently, Media24 reports that the South African government is debating whether or not the jabs will be...

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...
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From Paper to Progress: The Critical Role of EHRs in Modern Mental Health Treatment

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