The head of the World Health Organisation says he hopes the world can end the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years – less time than it took for the 1918 flu pandemic to be stopped. LONDON: The head of the World Health Organisation says he hopes the world can end the coronavirus pandemic in […]
Study found extremely high levels of SARS-CoV-2 in children’s airways In the most comprehensive study of COVID-19 pediatric patients to date, researchers provide critical data showing that children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought. In a study of 192 children ages 0-22, 49 children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, […]
Moscow to begin vaccine trials; Trump backs plasma treatment; survey finds 30% of Delhi has antibodies The World Health Organization is in discussions with Russia to obtain more information about its experimental Covid-19 vaccine – named Sputnik V – even as Russia plans to give it to some 40,000 people next week for further testing. Last week, Russia […]
JOBURG – The region includes Randburg, Rosebank, Emmarentia, Greenside, Melville, Mayfair, Northcliff, Parktown and Parktown North. The Gauteng Department of Health has confirmed that Johannesburg’s suburbs of Region E have reached 10 936 Covid-19 recoveries as of 18 August. The region, which includes Alexandra, Wynberg, Sandton, Orange Grove and Houghton, has a confirmed total of 13 179 […]
Lack of jobs and poor living conditions, minors, and young people from surrounding countries, desperate for a better life, accept job offers without doing any research. They leave home, in hope of a better life, and living conditions. Earning an income, means that they can send money back home for their loved ones. They are […]
Each year on 18 July, South Africans and people around the world celebrate Mandela Day, in honour of the late Nelson Mandela. It is a global call to action that reminds us that we each have the power to make this world a better place. Nelson Mandela fought for social justice for 67 years. On […]
By Seema Naidoo South Africa had an extremely high unemployment rate before the pandemic, with millions living in poverty and starvation. The lockdown has resulted in a spike of job losses due to business being affected, leaving thousands more jobless. Restriction of movement during lockdown affected the daily wage people, whereby on normal circumstances, they […]
Subscribe President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that a number of South Africa’s lockdown regulations will be relaxed as the country moves to a level 2 lockdown from midnight on Monday (17 August). In a national address on Saturday evening (15 August), the president said that the country is making progress in its fight against the […]
Unsealed testimony from 2015 case reveals series of claims about Briton’s role in Epstein sex-trafficking ring Ghislaine Maxwell sexually abused underage girls and joined Jeffrey Epstein in directing Virginia Roberts Giuffre to be sexually abused by others, Giuffre claimed in a cache of documents that has been unsealed in the US. She “trained me as a […]
Woman has come forward claiming she recalls seeing duke at Mayfair nightclub with Giuffr The FBI has been passed information from a witness claiming to have seen the Duke of York at a nightclub with a woman who alleges the pair had sex when she was a teenager. The US lawyer Lisa Bloom, who is representing the […]