South Africa has been at the forefront of the Omicron wave and the world is watching for any signs of how it may play out there to try to understand what may be in store

South African Medical Association chairwoman Dr Angelique Coetzee: 'The symptoms we are seeing in (vaccinated) people are less severe or intense than in the unvaccinate'

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has postponed getting a booster shot of a Covid-19 vaccine because he has tested positive for the disease and is recuperating from mild symptoms, his office has announced.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is receiving treatment for mild Covid-19 symptoms after testing positive for the disease. Mr Ramaphosa started feeling unwell and a test confirmed Covid-19, according to a statement from the presidency.

South Africa has accelerated its vaccination campaign by giving jabs at pop-up sites in shopping centres and transport hubs to combat a rapid rise in new Covid-19 cases, a week after the discovery of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread of the highly transmissible new Omicron variant of Covid-19 that was first detected in the country.

Minister Stephen Donnelly is “deeply concerned” following the emergence of a new variant of Covid-19 while the Department of Health continues to liaise with UK authorities on the matter.

A rapid resurgence of Covid-19 is slamming South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, and threatens to overwhelm its hospitals.

Hundreds of patients were being evacuated from Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke Hospital where a fire was blazing through parts of the facility in South Africa’s largest city.

The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is effective against the coronavirus variant that emerged from South Africa, according to a new study.

Scientists at Porton Down are researching whether vaccines will be effective against the variant from South Africa, and the new variant spreading across the UK.

South Africa has surpassed 500,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases, representing more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa’s 54 countries.