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Up to one in five people can get long COVID — a condition in which someone keeps on feeling ill for months after their initial symptoms have cleared up. (Paul Botes)

Covid-19 caused a loss of more than $500 million in KwaZulu-Natal alone

A World Bank study has found that the pandemic put a strain on healthcare workers, which affected the health system

Protestors gather In Washington DC after Russia invaded Ukraine. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could be firestarter of global economic woes

Developed countries could do much to help counterparts in the developing world weather the current storm

Pop-up vaccination site at the SABC Auckland Park Campus on August 26, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Gauteng government partnered with SABC to boost to the province’s mass vaccination programme. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Vaccine mandate quandary heading to court, Concourt candidate predicts

Alan Dobson SC says a legislating vaccine mandates would have to be weighed against various constitutional provisions and was likely to see legal challenge

Save forests to protect us from future pandemics — Harvard scientists

Risk of next pandemic greater than ever, scientists say, but world can act

Constraints: A health worker gives a man a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Francistown, Botswana, in March 2021. Photo: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images

Botswana: ‘Masisi is mismanaging Covid-19’

Six months into Botswana’s vaccine roll-out, only 5% of the population has been vaccinated

Pressures: Standard Bank Group chief executive Sim Tshabalala believes environmental and social governance concerns regarding projects are a priority.  (Freddy Mavunda/Gallo Images/Business Day)

Standard Bank ‘risks its reputation over East African oil pipeline

Standard Bank says it has insisted on good environmental assessments, resettlement plans and fair compensation

Infectious disease specialist Florian Steiner (L) and quarantine office leader Thomas Klotzkowski disinfect themselves during a demonstration of the proceedings at the ward of Berlin’s Charite hospital in August 2014.           (Photo by Tim Brakemeier/DPA/AFP)

How to escape the ‘era of pandemics’

Any of 850 000 viruses could cause the next global crisis. Experts say we should focus on prevention

The Covid-19 lockdown slowed the economy to a point where businesses across all sectors are operating below capacity.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘The silent road outside my house was the sound of a coming recession’

John Davenport’s Google survey of 500 people shows that people are twice as scared of the economic effects of Covid-19 than they are of catching the virus

Jakkie Cilliers’s book about igniting a growth revolution in Africa has some timely lessons as we seek ways to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19.

Review: The pandemic could change politics as we know it. Here’s a guidebook

Jakkie Cilliers’s book about igniting a growth revolution in Africa has some timely lessons as we seek ways to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19

Excluded: United States President Donald Trump signs an emergency coronavirus spending Bill, but it will not protect millions of workers in that country. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

‘Worker safety nets inadequate’

With large-scale job losses on the horizon here and around the world, the Covid- 19 pandemic has put the vulnerability of workers in sharp focus

Solution: Vaccine vials, which need to be kept cool and are costly to transport,  may soon be replaced by vaccines on a thin-film membrane, which will do away with weight, cost and cooling issues. (Jane Barlow – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The narratives that define the coronavirus pandemic will influence its outcome

Combatting Covid-19 is as much about public relations as public health. Now is our chance to tell new stories and find new ways of working together

This picture shows a poster by Italian urban artist Salvatore Benintende aka “TVBOY” depecting Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa  wearing a protective facemask and holding a mobile phone reading “Mobile World Virus” in a street of Barcelona on February 18, 2020, a week after the World Mobile Congress was cancelled due to fears stemming from the coronavirus that sparked an exodus of industry heavyweights. (Pau Barrena/AFP)

Editorial: Coronavirus – These are unusual times

South Africa had kept Covid-19 from entering the country for a long time. But in recent days, the number of confirmed cases has increased

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo Archive)

Covid-19 to take precedence at special Cabinet meeting

The 122 South Africans repatriated from the disease epicentre in Wuhan, China are expected back in the country on Friday