Linda-Gail Bekker: scientist vs virus Linda-Gail Bekker’s experience in fighting HIV and TB makes her ideally suited to take on Covid-19 and she knows first-hand how frightening infection with the virus can be 17 March 2021 - 05:00 Khadija Patel & Mia Malan Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism Top: Prof Linda-Gail Bekker in her office. Picture: David Harrison
Prof Linda-Gail Bekker runs a hand impatiently through her silver pixie-cut hair and stands up to open the windows in a tiny corner office at the Groote Schuur Hospital campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT).
She marches to a large, wood-framed window and fiddles with the latches. Everything we know about the benefits of ventilation to limit transmission of Covid-19 could easily have been applied to help prevent the spread of TB a long time ago, she says. Covid has forced us to rethink everything, including how we design buildings.
SOME of Herefordshire biggest annual events have already fallen foul of coronavirus for a second year running, but some are still planning to go-ahead. With uncertainty over the level of restrictions this summer, despite the Government s roadmap suggestion all could be lifted by mid-June, events such as Beer on the Wye and the Bromyard Gala have all pulled plans for 2021.
Hereford Food Festival The popular Hereford Food Festival says it will go ahead later this year and have dubbed the event as its comeback. Organisers have pushed the date of the festival, held at Hereford Racecourse, back to August 28 and 29, having originally planned for June.
What Herefordshire's biggest events say about going ahead herefordtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from herefordtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Designs for 18-storey tower block at mouth of the Ouseburn must be something iconic
It emerged last week that a developer is preparing plans for a major new housing development at Malmo and Spillers Quay, which would include a potential 18-storey block
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