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Covid-19 pandemic causes shortage of organs for transplants By Norman Cloete Share Johannesburg - South Africa’s official cumulative death rate from Covid-19 hit 45 902 on Friday. Now experts are warning 10 percent more South Africans – adults and children – could perish if they don’t get the vital organ transplants that the pandemic has denied them. The reasons are two-fold: coronavirus has temporarily halted all transplants, but the donor pool is shrinking too – because of the prohibition of alcohol sales that had been in place until Tuesday this week. Road accidents are the main source of organs for transplant operations, with alcohol being a contributing factor in 27.1 percent of all fatal crashes in South Africa according to a survey conducted by the Road Traffic Management Corporation, the South African Medical Research Council and the University of South Africa last year.

South africaUnited kingdomNorthern capeWestern capeSouth africansSouth africanSamantha nicholsDavid thompsonRafique moosaUnited kingdom national health serviceMinisterial advisory committeeUnited network for organ sharing unosDepartment of medicine at stellenbosch universityTraffic management corporationUniversity of south africaOrgan donor foundation