https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOeJ86k0m7E/pauline-bax RSS for Node Sun, 17 May 2026 06:31:45 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-07/south-africa-to-speed-up-plans-to-use-j-j-shot-on-health-workers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-07/south-africa-to-speed-up-plans-to-use-j-j-shot-on-health-workers Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:03:45 GMT TOPSHOT - One of the first South African Oxford vaccine trialists looks on as a medical worker injects him with the clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, on June 24 ,2020. (Photo by SIPHIWE SIBEKO / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SIPHIWE SIBEKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/covid-vaccines-may-need-adjusting-to-new-strains-scientists-say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/covid-vaccines-may-need-adjusting-to-new-strains-scientists-say Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:28:24 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/covid-variant-fueled-record-infections-in-africa-who-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/covid-variant-fueled-record-infections-in-africa-who-says Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:48:25 GMT Medical workers test drivers at a drive-thru coronavirus testing facility in Pretoria, South Africa, on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2020. The resurgence of South Africa’s coronavirus outbreak coincided with a record number of excess deaths in the third week of December, suggesting a far higher death toll from Covid-19 than reflected in the latest health ministry data. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/south-africa-s-first-covid-19-vaccines-to-arrive-feb-1 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/south-africa-s-first-covid-19-vaccines-to-arrive-feb-1 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:36:05 GMT An employee removes vials of Covishield, the local name for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc. and the University of Oxford, from a machine on the production line at the Serum Institute of India Ltd. Hadaspar plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India, on Friday, Jan. 22. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/no-food-for-100-hours-the-state-of-south-african-health-care https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/no-food-for-100-hours-the-state-of-south-african-health-care Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:01:37 GMT A hospital worker walks amongst patients with COVID-19 in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on December 29, 2020. - The patents in this ward are not critically serious, but do require oxygen and to lie down. South Africa has become the first African nation to record one million coronavirus cases, according to new data published by the country's health ministry on December 27, 2020. Currently suffering a second wave of infections, of which the majority are a new variant of the coronavirus, South Africa is the hardest hit country on the African continent. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP) (Photo by RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/south-africa-s-excess-deaths-soar-as-new-virus-variant-spreads https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/south-africa-s-excess-deaths-soar-as-new-virus-variant-spreads Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:26:02 GMT TOPSHOT - A morgue attendant at the Johannesburg branch of the South African funeral and burial services company Avbob keeps the curtain open from inside a refrigerated container where bodies of patients deceased with COVID-19 related illnesses are kept isolated ahead of their burials on January 22, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/south-africa-s-vaccine-holdup-heaps-pressure-on-ramaphosa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/south-africa-s-vaccine-holdup-heaps-pressure-on-ramaphosa Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:00:00 GMT Healthcare workers work inside a temporary Covid-19 ward at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on Jan. 11. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/south-africa-s-opposition-demands-clarity-on-vaccine-strategy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/south-africa-s-opposition-demands-clarity-on-vaccine-strategy Mon, 18 Jan 2021 10:57:32 GMT This picture taken on on January 14, 2021 at the Christalain nursing home in Brussels shows syringes and needles being prepared for injection of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine that allow one extra dose of vaccine per vial. - EU's medicines watchdog said on January 8, 2021 that six doses instead of five of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus jab can be extracted from each vial if the correct needles are used, increasing the number of people who can be vaccinated with available supplies. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/south-africa-excess-deaths-reach-record-as-covid-resurges https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/south-africa-excess-deaths-reach-record-as-covid-resurges Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:09:31 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-25/south-africa-rejects-u-k-claims-over-new-coronavirus-variant https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-25/south-africa-rejects-u-k-claims-over-new-coronavirus-variant Fri, 25 Dec 2020 10:06:42 GMT This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2-also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19-isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR - LPN/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Photographer: BSIP/Universal Images Group Editorial https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/south-african-cheetahs-find-new-home-in-zambia-wetlands-reserve https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/south-african-cheetahs-find-new-home-in-zambia-wetlands-reserve Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:06:30 GMT A cheetah in its new home in Bangweulu Wetlands, Zambia. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/pierre-buyoya-burundi-leader-who-led-two-coups-dies-at-71 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/pierre-buyoya-burundi-leader-who-led-two-coups-dies-at-71 Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:06:07 GMT Pierre Buyoya in 2001. Photographer: Pedro Ugarte/AFP via Getty Images https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/african-nation-worst-hit-by-covid-19-falling-behind-on-vaccines https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/african-nation-worst-hit-by-covid-19-falling-behind-on-vaccines Thu, 03 Dec 2020 04:00:00 GMT Vaccine trials in Soweto. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-27/lockdowns-in-south-africa-freed-township-entrepreneurs-to-thrive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-27/lockdowns-in-south-africa-freed-township-entrepreneurs-to-thrive Fri, 27 Nov 2020 04:06:03 GMT Kopano Mofokeng, owner of Kasi Convenience, unloads a delivery in Soweto. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-25/burundi-urges-un-to-push-rwanda-for-handover-of-dissidents https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-25/burundi-urges-un-to-push-rwanda-for-handover-of-dissidents Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:07:48 GMT Pierre Nkurunziza https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/ivory-coast-leader-s-legitimacy-at-stake-in-vote-he-s-set-to-win https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/ivory-coast-leader-s-legitimacy-at-stake-in-vote-he-s-set-to-win Fri, 30 Oct 2020 06:00:00 GMT Alassane Ouattara at the presidential palace in Abidjan on Oct. 28. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/the-president-who-s-eroding-tanzania-s-tolerance-seeks-new-term https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/the-president-who-s-eroding-tanzania-s-tolerance-seeks-new-term Tue, 27 Oct 2020 06:00:00 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/south-africa-records-9-increase-in-coronavirus-infections https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/south-africa-records-9-increase-in-coronavirus-infections Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:43:33 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/economist-shakes-up-guinea-s-male-dominated-leadership-race https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/economist-shakes-up-guinea-s-male-dominated-leadership-race Fri, 16 Oct 2020 04:00:00 GMT Makalé Traoré speaks to a group of women near the town of Forecariah, Guinea, on Oct. 11. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/disinformation-campaigns-on-facebook-twitter-google-undermine-african-election https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/disinformation-campaigns-on-facebook-twitter-google-undermine-african-election Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:01:46 GMT