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| ALEX VAN DEN HEEVER, IMRAAN VALODIA, LUCY ALLAIS, MARTIN VELLER, SHABIR MADHI & WILLEM DANIEL FRANCO As the lockdown is relaxed, South Africa's focus should now be on how best to suppress the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus using other strategies... read |
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| ANDREA FULLER & DUNCAN MITCHELL As lockdowns are lifted, procedures are being put in place to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Along with physical distancing, hand sanitisation and wearing of masks, fever screening is increasingly being set up as a requirement...read |
| | The health crisis overshadowing our nation is not limited to physical health. As much as it's a threat to physical health, the threat of the virus itself along with the resultant lockdown are likely to have severe short- and long-term impacts on mental health...read |
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| | | GROUNDUP AND SPOTLIGHT STAFF The official Covid-19 death toll is now over 450,000, but this is a considerable underestimate. An ongoing Financial Times analysis shows that excess deaths in many European countries far exceed their Covid-19 official death tolls. Read | | ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA Younger South Africans are not having an easy time currently showing the highest levels of fear and depression amongst all age groups, according to recent quantitative research conducted by research firm, Ask Afrika... Read | | As South Africa's Covid-19 response shut down many options for access to mental healthcare services, Woodstock's Counselling Hub recognised the critical need to still be available to its low-income community... Read | | ISSUED BY INSIGHT SURVEY Insight Survey's latest SA Cough, Cold and Flu Remedies Industry Landscape Report 2020 uncovers the global and local cough, cold and flu remedies market based on the latest information and research... Read | | Extending the lockdown by another two months will not necessarily delay the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic by any meaningful margin, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said... Read | | ISSUED BY NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY (NWU) An initiative from the Faculty of Engineering at the North-West University (NWU) was recently honoured with an international award from the Covid-19 Innovation Challenge of the United Nations (UN) Africa Innovation and Investment Forum 2020... Read |
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| Over the last two years, Pharma Dynamics has donated in excess of 45,000 Tutudesks to beneficiary schools in Mpumalanga and Limpopo... Read |
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| One of South Africa's top food safety experts has warned that the country cannot afford another food-borne outbreak like the listeriosis one of 2017... Read |
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| ISSUED BY LIVEWELL There are many forms of dementia, and almost all of them are characterised by memory loss. Dementia patients can also experience considerable mood changes and personality shifts... Read |
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| SAYURI PADAYACHEE The vast majority of women dying from pregnancy-related conditions are in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. In 2017, about 86% of global maternal deaths occurred in these regions... Read |
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| TOLU OLAREWAJU The Covid-19 pandemic will have economic consequences for many countries. In Nigeria, the country's lockdowns froze economic activities, causing job losses and supply chain disruptions. Read |
| RISTO PALDANIUS How can African countries build an electrical system that can both integrate a large amount of inexpensive, but intermittent, renewable energy, while at the same time ensure resiliency for the continent's blackout-prone grids? Read |
| Vera Songwe, executive secretary of the ECA, says tackling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic effectively to ensure Africa grows back and builds back better in the aftermath of Covid-19 requires boldness... Read |
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| ANDREW WALLACE "What will it take to encourage much more widespread reliance on working at home for at least part of each week?" asked Frank Schiff, the chief economist of the US Committee for Economic Development, in The Washington Post in 1979... Read |
| Amazon has announced the creation of 3,000 new virtual jobs in customer service in South Africa this year... Read |
| KHANYISA NOMOYI It is without doubt that the inclusion and representation of Black people in corporate South Africa continues to be an urgent matter that needs to be addressed... Read |
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