Council( SAMRC) said on Wednesday. Led by SAMRC and conducted in collaboration with the National

JOHANNESBURG( BLOOMBERG)-As many as four out of five South Africans may have contracted the coronavirus, indicating that the country may be one of the world's hardest-hit nations by the disease, the chief actuary at Africa's biggest health insurer said.Mr Emile Stipp, the actuary at Discovery Health, based his calculations on the country's case-fatality rate and excess deaths, a measure of the number of fatalities compared with a historical average. They are thought to provide a more accurate pi

JOHANNESBURG( REUTERS)-Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, according to a major real-world study which suggests weaker efficacy against the new Omicron variant. The study released on Tuesday( Dec 14) by South Africa's largest private health insurance administrator, Discovery Health, was based on more than 211, 000 positive Covid-19 test results. Around 78, 000 of those results from No

The study released on Tuesday by South Africa’s largest private health insurance administrator, Discovery Health, was based on more than 211, 000 positive COVID-19 test results.... 7 were attributed to Omicron. The 78, 000 results are not confirmed Omicron cases, meaning the study cannot offer conclusive findings about the variant labelled “ of concern ” by the World Health Organization and reported in more than 60 countries.... South Africa alerted the world to Omicron late last month, trigge