Health
Covid-19 testing: Are we scaling up?
Government is struggling to meet its testing targets. But there is progress.
By Elsabé Brits
News | 20 April 2020
Covid-19 screening welcomed by KZN informal settlement residents
“I’m happy that I was screened. I will continue staying at home and watch if I develop any of the symptoms”
News | 20 April 2020
Covid-19 preparations are in place say Gauteng hospitals
There’s agreement to use private hospital beds for public sector patients should the need arise
By Elna Schütz
News | 20 April 2020
Covid-19: How a woman copes without a toilet or water
“I make my kids stay in my yard or lie in bed throughout the day”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 April 2020
Covid-19: Hospital staff demand protective gear and danger pay
NEHAWU meets with Dora Nginza hospital management to resolve complaints
Brief | 17 April 2020
How the Western Cape is responding to Covid-19
We had an advantage over countries in the North “because we had the opportunity to observe them, the trajectory of their epidemic, their mistakes”
By Liezl Human
News | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Informal settlement without water despite Durban mayor’s promise
In January the City demolished the only toilet in Mandeni
Brief | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Patients turned away as PE clinic runs out of water
Ward councillor blames decaying municipal infrastructure for burst water pipe
Brief | 15 April 2020
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
By Thamsanqa Mbovane and Zimbili Vilakazi
News | 15 April 2020