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Professor Lungile Pepeta. Professor Lungile Pepeta died of Covid-19 on Friday, reportedly after being placed on a ventilator.He was a renowned paediatric cardiologist and had been helping to spearhead the response to Covid-19.Pepeta took up the chair at the CMS following the death of Dr Clarence Mini, also from the virus.Nelson Mandela University's health sciences…

Incoming Wits Vice-Chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi (@Wits_News) Professor Zeblon Vilakazi will take over as the new Wits Vice-Chancellor from Professor Adam Habib, who is stepping down at the end of the year.Vilakazi is the current Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Postgraduate Studies at Wits.Vilakazi also chairs South Africa's National Quantum Computing Working Committee. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi…

Only 10 per cent of people who are infected with the coronavirus develop antibodies, a professor claims.  Professor Karol Sikora, an advisor to the World Health Organisation, said the majority would have a negative result on an antibody test, even though they have had the coronavirus. Governments have pinned their hopes on antibody testing to understand how…

Sir John Bell, the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, said Sunday that researchers at the university working on a potential vaccine for the coronavirus would likely have an idea of its efficacy by June.Bell told NBC’s Chuck ToddCharles (Chuck) David ToddTrump blasts Fox News, says he wants 'an alternative' How autocrats are using…

The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. A Stanford University professor’s wife invited parents in a wealthy enclave of Northern California to sign up for her husband’s coronavirus…