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Covid-19 Report 3: Promising new tests, but hydroxychloroquine disappoints

And how Tygerberg Hospital ICU doctors are managing patients

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Covid-19 Report | 12 May 2020

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Covid-19: Nurses stop work in Eastern Cape town after one tests positive

Department says it will clean the facility and test staff at Dutywa Health Centre

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Brief | 12 May 2020

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Prison riot in Lusikisiki

Awaiting trial inmates say their “rights are grossly violated” by the Covid-19 lockdown regulations

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Brief | 12 May 2020

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Covid-19: “One day I will get my own food parcel”

Hungry KwaNobuhle residents wait all night for food

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Brief | 12 May 2020

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Covid-19: East London shack dwellers block streets over food vouchers

Residents accuse councillor of nepotism

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News | 12 May 2020

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Covid-19: The lockdown is being torn apart on the rocks of fiscal miserliness

If you want people to stay home and businesses to stay shut, you have to pay them to do so

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Opinion | 12 May 2020

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Woman alleges cigarette corruption by Grassy Park police

Vanessa Adriaanse claims police unlawfully entered her home and arrested her

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News | 12 May 2020

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Covid-19: PE clinic closes after a nurse dies and 11 staff test positive

Unions question Eastern Cape Health’s plan for staff at health facilities

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News | 11 May 2020

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Police must pay R96,000 in damages to gospel singer after warrantless search

“Evil act” perpetrated by police who have constitutional duty to protect society, says judge

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Law | 11 May 2020

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