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Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa | 3 Mar 2021
Basic demographic information for all deaths registered by the Department of Home Affairs on the National Population Register are provided to the SAMRC. In the context of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it has become essential to track the weekly nu...
The mission: How Glenda Gray became 'the closest thing South Africa has to Tony Fauci' | 26 Feb 2021
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 princi...
South Africa is rapidly moving to protect its highly valued healthcare workers through the Sisonke Early Access Programme. The WHO reports that healthcare workers are an especially vulnerable group. A threat to their safety and wellbeing has a furthe...
Sisonke (TOGETHER) study | 19 Feb 2021
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
As the interim analysis of the ENSEMBLE clinical trial data of Johns...