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Proactive: Teachers and support staff queue for the Covid-19 vaccination at Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein in the face of the more transmittable Delta variant. (Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images/Volksblad)

Health department scraps quarantine, isolation requirements for asymptomatic Covid-19 contacts

The government has also started administering J&J booster shots from 24 December and will roll out Pfizer boosters from 28 December

Nowhere to go: Zimbabwean
special permit holders outside Home Affairs.
(Madelene Cronjé)

Zimbabweans living in South Africa may be unable to travel home for the holidays

According to the government’s latest Covid-19 guidelines, anyone coming into Zimbabwe must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days — at their own expense

The stage has been set for one of the most anticipated climate conferences to address global warming – and targets for the biggest emitters . (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

SA delegates to quarantine in Glasgow amid calls for COP26 postponement

Eligible COP26 attendees are expected to receive their UK-sponsored Covid-19 jabs this week, but the Climate Action Network says it is too late

(Cartoon by Carlos)

Carlos on quaranting the ANC’s corrupt

The ANC has a solution for cadres: Wait until the next news cycle. Rinse. Repeat.

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Homecoming: Quarantine chronicles

Fourteen days of quarantine in a Centurion hotel may be tedious, but for Kate Bartlett, there are plenty of laughs with new friends

Spookily comforting: Lauren Beukes latest novel, Afterland, was five years in the making and the depth of research imbues the book with an intensity that is rivetting. (Nazreen Essack)
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Review: ‘Afterland’ — a novel that foreshadows the Covid-19 pandemic

For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely

With more resources than other provinces, health workers in Gauteng still say they do not have enough protective equipment to ensure safety when working with Covid-19 patients. (Paul Botes, M&G)

Nurses ‘threatened’ after refusing to attend to people in quarantine

Sixteen people identified during mass testing in the Eastern Cape were first taken to a B&B before being taken to a hospital

Minister of International Relations and Co-operations Naledi Pandor. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

It’s our diplomatic duty to bring South Africans back home — Dirco

South Africans stuck abroad are told to be patient while the government is negotiating with different countries and working on ways to bring them back home

Mary J. Blige performs her biggest hits onstage at the CBS Interactive Music Group’s “Live on Letterman” Web cast from the Ed Sullivan Theatre. (Heather Wines/CBS Broadcasting Inc)
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Playlist: RnBetter Not Go Outside

Fight the indoor blues with our R&B lockdown playlist featuring the likes of SWV, Ashanti and Keith Sweat

Responding to provocations: (from left) Artwork from season seven at the Centre for the Less Good Idea (Stella Oliver)
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Old artistic forms find new mediums in uncertain times

Music, art and theatre are moving online as cultural workers adjust to lockdown

Catch artists like Erykah Badu, DJ Shimza, Little Dragon, DJ Zinhle, Quest Love and others online at anytime. (Tony Krash)
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Get your quarantine on — the best in virtual entertainment

With everyone settling into an indoors routine or starting to lose it because of cabin fever, this guide should remind you that creativity and beauty still exist, virtually…

South Africa alone has registered more than 3 600 of its citizens who want to return home. (GCIS)

South Africans from Wuhan quarantine group safe to go home

After testing negative for Covid-19, 112 South Africans quarantined in Limpopo can now go home

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Editorial: Decisive leadership in Covid-19

Last week the Brazilian health minister warned that the country’s public health system was likely to collapse under the strain of the coronavirus by the end of April. Although…

Answers are scant as Dr Zweli Mkhize remains on “special leave”. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Covid-19: Are we at a disadvantage compared to China and Singapore?

South Africans are economically stressed and will quickly find ways to circumvent restrictions. Without social mobilisation we won’t be able to ensure the compliance that other…

(Sebabatso Mosamo/ Sunday Times)

We’d be extinct if it weren’t for hope

Hope requires empathy and a courageous optimism and faith that, as a species, our existence as humans transcends even the darkest of times

Ronald Lamola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Constitutional rights during disaster

New regulations have a far-reaching impact on people’s rights, but they are finely balanced against people’s Constitutional rights

Coronavirus: 151 people to return to South Africa from China within two weeks

They have not been diagnosed with the coronavirus and the health department says there’s no need for citizens to panic

(Luke Dray/Getty Images)

Students ‘abandoned’ in Wuhan

Africans living in China want to be evacuated

Virus fever: The coronavirus has killed over 2000 people in China and the world has been put on high alert, with confirmed cases reported in over 20 other countries. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Life in lockdown: Behind closed doors keeping out the coronavirus

South African students in China are staying behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak