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[ad_1] With polls pointing to high levels of vacillation in countries from France to Poland, European Union leaders from 27 countries are touting it as the best chance to get back to something like normal life next year. “We are starting to turn the page in a difficult year,” Ursula …

[ad_1] POLITICS The country’s three main parties had to come up with ingenious ways to stay relevant and in the public eye without being able to hold public conferences and rallies. How to perform their political functions and duties without putting themselves and their constituents at risk of contracting Covid-19 …

[ad_1] With polls pointing to high levels of vacillation in countries from France to Poland, European Union leaders from 27 countries are touting it as the best chance to get back to something like normal life next year. “We are starting to turn the page in a difficult year,” Ursula …

[ad_1] Global M&A activity fell back from lows of nearly a decade in 2020, tackling the Covid-19 pandemic with a series of large deals in the second half of the year that negotiators expect to continue. Transaction volumes are now down about 6% over the year to $ 3.5 trillion, …

[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG – South Africa is expected to release details of its Covid-19 vaccine trials in January. The massive global launch of an effective vaccine can help curb the Covid-19 pandemic in a short space of time. The Health Department has yet to release details of its plans to roll …

[ad_1] By Theolin Tembo 3h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareE-mailShare Cape Town – South African Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize criticized comments made by UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock about the SA Covid-19 variant as “more transmissible”. Both Great Britain and South Africa are currently facing a second wave of …

[ad_1] South Africa’s Health Minister Dr Zwelini Mkhize has challenged a statement by his UK counterpart Matt Hancock about South Africa’s link to the mutated strain of the coronavirus that has been spreading in the UK. The UK health secretary said at a press conference earlier this week that a …

[ad_1] By IOL Reporter 5h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareE-mailShare On Christmas Eve 2020, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize reported that 14,305 new coronavirus cases were identified and 326 more Covid-19-related deaths confirmed. South Africa has a cumulative total of 968,563 Covid-19 cases, while the death toll is 25,983. “Sadly, we …

[ad_1] But Mkhize criticized Hancock, saying his comments “have created the perception that the SA variant has been a major factor in the second wave in the UK.” “This is not correct. There is evidence that the UK variant was developed earlier than the South African variant,” he said. Mkhize …

[ad_1] Drug makers, including BioNTech and Moderna, are scrambling to test their COVID-19 vaccines against the new, fast-spreading variant of the virus that is sweeping Britain, the latest challenge in the fast-paced race to curb the pandemic. Ugur Sahin, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, which with its partner Pfizer took …