Covid-19 recovery rate drops below 95% Updated
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South Africa’s Covid-19 recovery rate has shown a drop – after months of keeping steady at 95%.
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The latest report by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize shows the rate has dropped to 94.4 % by Sunday evening.
This was on the eve of South Africa rolling out its mass Covid-19 vaccination programme. The cumulative recoveries now stand at 1 524 352 representing a recovery rate of 94,4%, reads the report by Mkhize.
The minister says 2 582 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded, while another 27 people lost their lives. As of today [Sunday] the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases identified in South Africa is 1 613 728, says Mkhize.
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CJTF-HOA Commander says SD National Guard soldiers leave their mark
SDNG Public AffairsMay 14, 2021News (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman KristinU.S. Army soldiers assigned to the East Africa Response Force and the South Dakota National Guard’s 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade in support of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA). Live-fire joint artillery training.
CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – South Dakota National Guard soldiers assigned to the 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB), are deployed to Camp Lemonnier, as the core staff for Combined Joint Task force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA). This is the first time in the history of CJTF-HOA that the staff has been made up of primarily one unit.
Published: 4/24/2021 2:00:11 PM
Michael Lindberg knew exactly what his diagnosis would be when he walked into a neurologist office at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon 18 months ago.
He actually knew for some time that the symptoms he had been dealing with would result in a Parkinson’s diagnosis. But like so many others he didn’t want to admit it.
“Denial is a wonderful thing for us to apply to many different circumstances,” said Lindberg, the former Chief Medical Officer at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough.
But there were obvious signs associated with the debilitating disease – physical slowing, loss of smell, muscle spasms, tremors in his right hand and discoordination in his left “all of which are precursors to Parkinson’s,” Lindberg said.