A woman declared dead by paramedics after a car crash in South Africa was found breathing in a morgue. The ambulance service operator who confirmed the incident Tuesday told CNN the organization has ...

Reducing reporting capacity or underreporting globally at a time when Covid variants are evolving to become immune evasive is akin to walking into a storm without checking the forecast. The low rate ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A severely injured woman in South Africa was declared dead by paramedics at the scene of a bad crash. Hours later, she was found alive in the mortuary fridge. The ...

A 50-year-old South African man woke up inside a mortuary over the weekend and screamed to be let out — scaring away attendants who thought he was a ghost. The man's family presumed he was dead when ...

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One of the pandemic’s enduring mysteries is how much of Africa seemed to have been spared the worst. A study of corpses suggests it hasn’t. The morgue at Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH), a ...

JOHANNESBURG — A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue refrigerator — nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said Monday. Health department spokesman Sizwe ...

A new study led by Boston University School of Public Health found that nearly 90 percent of deceased individuals at a Zambian morgue were infected with COVID-19, but only 10 percent tested positive ...

It was as if he awoke from the dead. A South African man regained his consciousness in a morgue fridge nearly a day after his relatives believed he had died of an asthma attack, The Associated Press ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the man awoke Sunday afternoon, 21 hours after his family called in an undertaker who sent him to the morgue after an asthma ...