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Grade 12 learners of Rosendaal Senior Secondary in Delft. The Department of Basic Education has released the revised calendar for the 2020 school year.Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that public schools would close for four weeks from 27 July to 24 August.Grade 12 pupils will, however, return to class on Monday, while children in…

The Villages is an active over-55 community north of Orlando in central Florida.The unique community offers recreation, shopping, dining and health care, with 50 golf courses, 12 country clubs and three town squares, according to TheVillagesFlorida.com. It also has more than 90 miles of golf cart paths.The Villages' population grew rapidly during the past decade from about…

Although the novel coronavirus pandemic still defies prediction, medical experts are expressing increasing optimism about the human immune system’s ability to fight the virus.Doomsday headlines followed a recent study of recovered COVID-19 patients reporting that antibodies, the hallmark of the immune system responding to an infection, may only last a few months. But in the…

Corruption Watch researcher Melusi Ncala. Corruption Watch released a report on the state of healthcare corruption on Wednesday. The report highlighted that the most vulnerable in society were most likely to feel the effects of corruption. News24 spoke to Corruption Watch's researcher Melusi Ncala about healthcare corruption during the Covid-19 pandemic. Civil society organisation Corruption Watch on Wednesday…

In the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus, a DeLand lab has been selected as a site for a clinical research trial. Accel Clinical Research has been chosen by the Biotech company Moderna to oversee trials of a COVID-19 vaccine."We've been absolutely ecstatic about it," said Dr. Bruce Rankin, the lab’s medical director.…