Firefighters battle blaze at Pretoria West factory Updated
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She saw a cloud of dark smoke in the direction of the Pretoria West industrial area while driving with her command aide from a house fire in West Park.
Upon arrival at the gate of the factory on the corner of Buitekant and Carl Street, they discovered smoke and visible flames coming out of an industrial plant, he says.
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Four more vaccine sites for Gauteng, 2 928 active cases in province
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JOHANNESBURG Gauteng Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi has expressed satisfaction at the state of the newly-opened additional coronavirus vaccination sites in the province.
The Chris Hani Baragwanath and Steve Biko Academic hospitals were the initial two vaccination sites when the first batch of Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses arrived.
As of Wednesday, the province has added four new sites: the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, the Netcare Milpark Private Hospital and the Lenmed Ahmed Kathrada Private Hospital.
“The more sites that are added to the system, the more health workers will be reached. I am pleased to see that at all sites there is a growing appetite among health-care workers to participate in this early access study programme being implemented by the South African Medical Research Council as part of the Sisonke Vaccination Programme,” sai
Over 400 000 people have contracted Covid-19 in Gauteng, of those 9678 have died
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Johannesburg - Over 400 000 people have been infected with the novel coronavirus in Gauteng since the virus arrived in South Africa almost a year ago.
Since the first confirmed case in the KZN Midlands in March last year, Gauteng has seen over 9678 people die from the virus, while over 391 479 have recovered.
According to the Health Ministry, 404 639 people have been infected since March last year, as of Sunday - the most infections by province. There are 3482 active cases.
Speaking to the nation on Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the rate of infection had slowed and it appeared the country had emerged from its second wave, which was confirmed in December. The second wave came with a new more infectious variant, the 501Y.V2, which is also now the most dominant in South Africa.
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