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 | | The nationwide lockdown has dramatically flattened South Africa's Covid-19 curve, allowing the country time to reinforce its healthcare infrastructure, Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize said in a technical briefing...read |
|  | | With the Covid-19 pandemic placing unprecedented demand on hospitals around the world, many are scrambling to provide sufficient ventilators, beds and staff to help those infected...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY CIPLA In light of social distancing, patients are seeking alternative solutions to interacting with their doctors... Read |  | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR DIETETICS IN SOUTH AFRICA The global pandemic has stripped daily life down to the essentials, and we find ourselves under lockdown restrictions with our thoughts and actions around food set in a very different context to anything we have known before... Read |  | JUSTINE DAVIES On 2 April, Sierra Leone reported its second Covid-19 case. The government reacted quickly, the country was on lockdown for 72 hours and borders were closed... Read |  | ISSUED BY CIPLA Many South Africans were hoping to wake up on 1 May 2020 to the end of the nationwide lockdown. Instead, they may decide to do a little morning exercise before 9am and then catch a new short-form comedy show called The Lockline, a collaboration between Cipla, Both Worlds Pictures and some of South Africa's top comedians... Read |  | Due to high levels of fear, South Africans are increasingly missing their healthcare appointments and not collecting their chronic medication during lockdown... Read |  | Envisionit Deep AI have launched an online version of Radify, their AI solution for radiologists and medical doctors... Read |  | ISSUED BY SAICA As part of Saica's Leadership in a time of crisis webinar series, clinical psychologist Navlika Ratangee spoke about how to achieve mental wellbeing during the Covid-19 crisis... Read |  | ISSUED BY JENNY GRIESEL COMMUNICATIONS Thirty-nine days into South Africa's national lockdown, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and South Africans are showing their resilience and ability to pull together as a community in new ways... Read |
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 | The public health crisis resulting from Covid-19 has not only turned the spotlight on the basic human right of access to healthcare, but also on the need for people to take personal responsibility for their health... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY THE SPACESTATION Through his clinic, Ndlovu Care Group, Hugo is known in the area as a generous and compassionate pillar of hope and strength... Read |
 | KATHERINE E GALLAGHER, ANTHONY SCOTT, IFEDAYO ADETIFA, JOHN OJAL, SHIRINE VOLLER & WANGECI KAGUCIA World Immunisation Week is celebrated in the last week of April every year. The aim is to recognise efforts to develop new vaccines and increase vaccination coverage worldwide... Read |
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 | HARSHANA KASSEEAH Mauritius is a small island nation located in the Indian Ocean. Like other countries, it faces drastic changes to its social and economic landscape with the appearance and spread of Covid-19... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Ten-year-old Gracia spent hours watching her seamstress grandmother make clothes. As she grew older, she became concerned about how people didn't like to wear African print designs... Read |
 | MELISSA MBAZO While skills development and policymaking play a vital role in long term transformation efforts, youth entrepreneurship serves as a viable way to achieve tangible impact on a local, national and even continental scale... Read |
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 | ANDRE VAN HEERDEN, JACQUES VAN WYK, AND BRADLEY WORKMAN-DAVIES How do we calculate the benefits payable to employers, on behalf of their employees, in terms of the Covid-19 TERS...? Read |
 | The Gray philanthropy ecosystem in South Africa has made available R180m of funding to assist with the economic, educational and medical shortages created by the coronavirus crisis... Read |
 | The Covid-19 coronavirus has forced essential businesses to offer delivery options and pushed consumers to buy online... Read |
 | BIASE DE GREGORIO Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for society, business and government to embrace uncertainty. This global crisis will force us to solve highly complex problems in new and creative ways... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE #TheLockdownSeries explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses... Read |
