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The Netcare hospital group has blamed the Delta variant for the increasing the number of hospitalisations in Gauteng.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
As the country's attention turns from flattening the curve through a lockdown to the preparedness of health systems, the latest statistics released by the Gauteng government show 58 people are currently hospitalised in public and private facilities across the province.
A total of 303 patients have been admitted to public and private hospitals in Gauteng since the outbreak of Covid-19, with 231 in-patients being discharged.
According to Makhura, there were approximately 8 301 beds in both the public and private sectors.
To date, it has 1 262 adult general beds in the private sector and 287 in the public sector.
In addition, there are 150 paediatric beds in the private sector and 35 in public institutions, while there are 169 intensive care and high care unit beds in private hospitals and 302 in public, bringing the total beds in Johannesburg to 2 205.
KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala has warned about cluster Covid-19 outbreaks in the province.
Use of the diabetes drug metformin -- before a diagnosis of COVID-19 -- is associated with a threefold decrease in mortality in COVID-19 patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to a racially diverse study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The five years I spent working in the border town of Musina, a melting pot of cultures, in the early to mid-2000s, sometimes felt like experiencing South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique in one place.
According to Ngaka Modiri Molema in the book The Bantu past and present: An Ethnographic and historical study of the Native races of South Africa, Tabane’s ancestry can be traced back to Mokgatla, after which the Bakgatla tribe is named and is a descendant of Mohurutshe.
In the company of the then Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa, we announced our arrival by paying a courtesy visit to the mayor of Livingstone, as is customary for African folks.
Read: After Covid-19, we must prioritise locals without discriminating against foreign nationals
The freedom of South Africa was plotted in Morogoro, Tanzania, among the many places.
It was the late Tanzanian president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere who told us that: “Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated.”
The Georgia Department of Public Health showed a total of 296,833 confirmed COVID-19 cases for the entire state as of Tuesday afternoon, including 6,398 deaths and 26,665 hospitalizations. On Tuesday, 1,571 newly confirmed cases were reported as well as 48 deaths and 271 hospitalizations. Locally, according to the B. Lamar Murray Public Health Center, Burke County has reached a total […]
[New Times] Effective Monday, January 18, all nursery, primary and secondary schools will be closed in the City of Kigali, the Ministry of Education has announced.
There is now one very specific exemption to the 'travel ban' imposed on Gauteng during Level 4 of lockdown - and it involves hunting.
The number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Maryland continues to fall while deaths continue to rise, according to data released by the State Department of Health on Saturday.
Kenya is reporting a decline in coronavirus cases, and hospital admissions for Covid-19 have fallen sharply, but some frontline health workers say infections are going undetected and could even be rising.
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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh warned yesterday that the second wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was being spread by young people and appealed to them to follow the measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that an additional 25 COVID-19 infectious were recorded as Guyana continues to see a rise in infections.
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South Africa's most populous province, Gauteng, is now recording more Covid-19 cases every day than at any point during the Western Cape's outbreak.
On 26 June, Gauteng recorded 2 598 new cases and 2 590 on 25 June – both representing the highest increases in cases in a single day in any province.
The sudden surge in cases in Gauteng also means that the province has recorded the highest number of concurrent active cases in a day – 24 063 as of 26 June, a 1 276 jump in recoveries in a day.
The previous highest number of active cases was recorded in the Western Cape on 24 June, at a little more than 16 000 cases.
Gauteng accounted for the highest number of cases - 2 941, and the Eastern Cape reported an increase of 1 720.
Police in South Africa have arrested five people, including a Zimbabwean woman, for allegedly smuggling cigarettes from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
The wide gap between tobacco taxes in the two countries has for some years created an opportunity for cigarette smugglers to earn large profits in South Africa, and the ban on cigarette sales during the South African lockdown has seen black market prices in South Africa rocket.
Brigadier Mojapelo said three suspects were arrested in Modimolle on Saturday while the Zimbabwean and her accomplices were picked up in Botlokwa north of Polokwane on Sunday morning.
He said the two were carrying an assortment of illicit cigarettes and alcohol when they sped off from a road block along the N1 highway before they were cornered by traffic police and the crime prevention police officers.
\"The vehicle was then searched and the illicit cigarettes and alcohol were found hidden inside and the two suspects were immediately apprehended\".
by Linda Wallace, For New Pittsburgh Courier Dear Cultural Coach: Senior citizens contribute to our society by volunteering, mentoring youth, caring for or raising grandchildren and holding full-time or part-time jobs. So why is it when we see them on TV, in films, or in the news they always seem to be sitting around in … Continued
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New models projecting the timeline and severity of the Covid-19 pandemic were published on Wednesday.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura backtracked slightly on his insistence that the entire province be moved to Level 3 and Free State Premier Sisi Ntombela said all but one district of the province were ready for Level 3.
Swipe through the gallery below to view the latest Covid-19 numbers available on 20 May at the district level.
All maps are sourced from provincial health departments; however, KwaZulu-Natal did not provide updates by the time of publishing:
South Africans have finally been able to see the work of the SA Covid-19 modelling consortium.
Modellers say the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 is expected to grow to 30,000 at best and 54,000 at worst by the end of May.
