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In a possible breakthrough, an Israeli Defense Ministry-run laboratory claimed it had completed successful coronavirus vaccine trials on rodents, paving the way to further testing on other animals and then possibly human trials. In a paper published Friday on the website of bioRxiv, an online repository for papers that haven’t yet been peer-reviewed, the Israel…

Police have arrested two suspects linked to the murder of Johanco Fleischman, 19, and Jessica Kuhn, 21, who were shot and killed after their bakkie ran out of diesel in Benoni last year. (Supplied) Two suspects linked to the murder of a young couple, who ran out of diesel in Benoni in May 2019, have…

A box of Dexamethasone tablets Matthew Horwood/Getty Images The health department is ready to immediately roll out dexamethasone to seriously ill Covid-19 patients.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said there were three major suppliers of intravenous dexamethasone in the country.He added the drug had no benefit to patients who did not require an extra supply of oxygen.The…

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize is "extremely excited" about an important development in one of the therapeutic trials for Covid-19.The treatment is an inexpensive and commonly used steroid that can save the lives of people seriously ill with Covid-19.The leader of the trial described this development as a major breakthrough. Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said…

The new potential coronavirus treatment dexamethasone is a "good first step" to finding a cocktail of drugs that can effectively treat Covid-19, Oxford University professor Martin Landray, who co-led the study that found the drug to improve survival among patients, told CNBC on Tuesday.Landray and his team earlier Tuesday published the results of a study, which has…