The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) last year introduced a sewage-based early warning system for the coronavirus in some parts of the country.

Professor Glenda Gray almost single-handedly secured 500 000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine for South African healthcare workers. A fearless advocate for doing what is right above all else, Gray explains why she stands on principle.

South Africa is rapidly moving to protect its highly valued healthcare workers through the Sisonke Study. The WHO reports that healthcare workers are an especially vulnerable group.

An open label, pragmatic, real world Phase 3b clinical trial of the investigational single-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine candidate among frontline healthcare workers in South Africa

Prof Shabir Madhi, Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA) has been appointed the new Dean of Wits University’s Faculty of Health Sciences for the next five years – effective from 1 January 2021.