Recently, the Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) publicly accused a reporter of a private paper of ‘theft’, after the reporter published a confidential draft report from the agency, which showed the Ministry of Health in poor light. The DRA did not have evidence that the report was actually ‘stolen’ by the …

The news of a new variant B 1.1.529 found in increasing numbers in South Africa and also other countries is causing global worry, because it is likely to be more transmissible than Delta. For a long time, the richer countries were warned to do more to help Africa and other …