DA Home Affairs spokesperson Angel Khanyile urged the government to immediately impose travel curbs on travellers from India â including stopping direct and connecting flights from India to South Africa, as well as seaports and land borders. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency (ANA)
Worrying rise in detection of Covid-19 cases at ports of entry
By Thobeka Ngema
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DURBAN - WITH the Covid-19 crisis in India worsening due to their second wave, there has been a lot of talk about Covid-19 variants, especially the one dominant in India, B.1.617.
The World Health Organization (WHO) listed the B.1.617 variant, first detected in India, as a Sars-CoV-2 variant of concern.
Countries are banning travel from Covid-hit India â calls for SA to do the same are growing May 05, 2021, 04:11 PM
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South Africa’s health department is considering tighter entry restrictions for travellers coming from India.
This may come in the form of a blanket travel ban or a mandatory quarantine period to prevent the importation of the Covid-19 variant prevalent in India.
Calls for tighter measures have been voiced by members of the Covid-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee.
The Economic Freedom Fighters and Democratic Alliance are both calling for a ban on travellers from India.
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Swimming in the dirty Vaal River to raise awareness of its contamination
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Johannesburg - Four open water swimmers swam two stretches of the highly-polluted Vaal River near Standerton in Mpumalanga to raise awareness of its contamination and to help seek solutions.
Andrew Chin and Craig Bishop from Cape Town, along with Mandy Uys and Joy Roach from East London bravely took on the challenge as part of the “Swim for Rivers” campaign, which highlights the deteriorating state of SA’s waterways and the urgent need to restore them.
The four set off near the Blesbokspruit confluence with the Vaal and swam downstream for around 10km to the entrance of the Grootdraai Dam. The swimmers encountered better-than-expected conditions along the river and signs of a relatively healthy ecosystem. They entered the river again on the Saturday, from a local farm, and swam almost 5km to the outskirts of Standerton, as locals had warned them about sewage flowing into the ri
Congestion concerns as SA open 20 land borders
By Sakhiseni Nxumalo
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Durban - The Department of Home Affairs said it was confident that the reopening of land border posts would go according to plan.
This comes after the National Coronavirus Command Council approved the reopening of borders from today (Monday) with a number of new regulations to mitigate the chaos experienced during the December festive period and in early January.
The congestion at the borders, especially at Beitbridge, was described as a “super-spreader” event and “humanitarian crisis”.
Queues of vehicles and large numbers of people on foot were seen at the border post with delays apparently due to Covid-19 screening and testing that had to be conducted.