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By IOL Reporter 9h agoSouth Africa has recorded a total of 785 139 Covid-19 cases and 21 439 deaths since the start of the pandemic, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday.Over the past 24 hours, 3 198 new confirmed cases and 61 deaths were identified.Case data by provinceAt 23 4572, Gauteng remains the province…

Loading... Socso has contributed 280 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Sabah Health Department. — Picture by Hari AnggaraKOTA KINABALU, Nov 28 ― The Social Security Organisation (Socso) today handed over 280 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Sabah Health Department for use by the health frontliners in the state.  The…

26 November 2020/ Geneva: Up to 5 million deaths a year could be averted if the global population was more active. At a time when many people are home bound due to COVID-19, new WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour, launched today, emphasize that everyone, of all ages and abilities, can be physically…

Brazzaville – African Health Ministers gathering for the resumed Seventieth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa took stock this week of the region’s efforts in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, with calls to step up vigilance and head off a possible resurgence of infections. Opening the meeting, Hon. Jacqueline Mikolo, Minister of…

“Inadequate” stockpiles of personal protective equipment forced the government to pay £10bn over the odds for items such as face-masks, gowns and gloves in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, a spending watchdog has found.The worldwide scramble for PPE sent prices soaring by more than 1,000 per cent in some cases, and saw Matt…

November 23, 2020 The tech industry is famous for its emphasis on productivity, life hacks, and winning at all costs. But that extreme culture of work isn’t always psychologically healthy for its workers. Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with veteran tech journalist Catherine Shu, of TechCrunch, about improving mental health culture in Silicon Valley. And Shu…

U.S. healthcare workers and others recommended for the nation’s first COVID-19 inoculations could start getting shots within a day or two of regulatory consent next month, a top official of the government’s vaccine development effort said on Sunday.Some 70% of the U.S. population of 330 million would need to be inoculated to achieve “herd” immunity…

Team Trump is trying to force our nation's low-income elderly, blind and disabled out of their own homes and into death trap nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Joseph Hunt, who has since left the Justice Department, represented the Trump administration in a California lawsuit over Trump efforts to weaken working conditions for low-paid aides who help our nation's elderly and disabled…

The Wits University Perinatal HIV Research Unit based at Baragwanath Hospital has launched an initiative to create an empowerment campaign tackling youth health and mental wellbeing through social media. The unit is inviting young people with 2,000 or more followers on social media to become influencers of the #YouthKeStarring programme. The coronavirus pandemic has taken…

YOURSAY | ‘All political parties have decided to give way to Warisan except for Bersatu...'Emergency declared in Batu Sapi, by-election postponedNewday: Are you happy now, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin? You got your state of emergency declared to postpone a by-election soon after a state election was held.The Batu Sapi by-election should have been a walkover…