Health

Covid-19: Meet the entrepeneurs who are making masks

Wearing masks may help reduce the spread of the epidemic, if other social distancing measures are also implemented

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News | 15 April 2020

Covid-19: KZN nurses stranded in Western Cape

Nurses told by agencies that they can’t be booked because they are not covered should they contract coronavirus at work

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Brief | 14 April 2020

Tim Noakes interview is dangerously misleading

And it contains elementary errors

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Science | 13 April 2020

Covid-19: Judge scolds union for “untenable” case against Minister of Health

“Under circumstances of national disaster, everyone is called upon, for the good of society as a whole, to co-operate in bringing the pandemic under control.”

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News | 11 April 2020

Patients turned away from PE clinic after nurse contracts Covid-19

Staff say they will return to work when they get their test results

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News | 10 April 2020

Covid-19: Come on South Africa, let’s make masks

Home-made masks can help protect us from the virus

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Science | 10 April 2020

Covid-19: Cape Town’s homeless camp: some answers, more questions

City aims to keep 2,000 people at Strandfontein site

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News | 10 April 2020

Covid-19: Doctors released from isolation in Limpopo TB hospital

This follows widespread criticism of MEC Phophi Ramathuba

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Brief | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Worldwide call for ban on wildlife markets

Appeal sent to World Health Organisation to publicly confirm threat posed to health

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News | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Police use rubber bullets to stop homeless people leaving camp

Street people claim they are not being fed and they were deceived about conditions

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News | 7 April 2020

Covid-19: How South Africa will test for the virus

TB test repurposed for Covid-19 will massively increase capacity

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News | 6 April 2020

Covid-19: Medical association slams decision to force two doctors to isolate in TB hospital

“The court action you embarked on to force these doctors into a provincial facility, and the manner in which these doctors have been treated by yourself and certain healthcare staff of the province, is most unsettling”

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News | 3 April 2020

Covid-19: Clinic staff serve patients through a fence in Uitenhage

NEHAWU concerned about lack of patient confidentiality being exercised by staff

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Brief | 3 April 2020

A message for police and soldiers: We support what you’re doing but do it gently

Our constitutional democracy should not be placed at risk by the Covid-19 lockdown

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GroundView | 26 March 2020

Covid-19: Why testing takes time and what to expect

There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes in the testing labs than most patients realise

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Science | 25 March 2020