‘Driving a fast car’; ‘getting the top three letters’; ‘playing the Lotto’. Nearly 40 years after HIV was first discovered, the virus is still a thing of euphemism and stigma. It’s also still infecting at least 4,000 people a day around the world, most of them young people, especi.
Medical experts say there’s no role for disinfectant foggers in Covid-19 control, but the Electoral Commission is distributing them to SA’s 23,151 voter registration stations this weekend and plans to order 126,280 more canisters for the upcoming elections.
These include steaming, a miracle oil , baby shampoo and medicine meant for domestic animals.
However, none of these so-called remedies provides a cure for Covid-19, health authorities say.
As South Africans await the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, a number of alternative methods are being punted as either curing the disease or, at the very least, preventing it from taking hold.
On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa, in a televised address, said South Africa is on track to secure 20 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19, but no timeline has yet been provided. Understandably we all want to know when the vaccines will be arriving. Everybody asks that question, and they want the vaccines to arrive yesterday. As we work to secure the supply of sufficient doses in the midst of huge global demand, we are doing and will continue to do everything that s possible to ensure that the process is both transparent, and it s handled most effectively and efficiently, and that informat
Reported Covid-19 infections in Limpopo have been rising.
Malema and the EFF have been proponents of stricter lockdowns to help curb the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19.
One of the biggest political proponents of a strict lockdown has seemingly been partying it up during the festive season – and has posted a video on social media to flaunt it.
In July, EFF leader Julius Malema criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after Ramaphosa announced a relaxation of lockdown restrictions, saying a failure to return to the stricter level five lockdown would lead to thousands of poor black lives lost.