As thousands across the world suffer from the novel coronavirus, encouragement messages for patients and their families are flooding social media. However, let's not forget about the medical professionals also
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will spend his Sunday dedicated to the National State of Disaster recently implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The President began the day with a
Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital (NCBMH) management issued a statement today [March 22] in which they say that allegations of refusal to treat a patient that tested positive for COVID-19
The ministries of Police and Tourism have, over the first weekend after the gazetting of the COVID-19 Disaster Management Regulations, identified and acknowledged the urgent need to simplify the interpretation
The confirmed cases of coronavirus escalated to 240 on Saturday, March 21. This indicates 38 more patients than was reported yesterday. For the first time since the outbreak in South
Self-quarantining is no easy feat. At first its sounds like something you've always wanted to do, but after the third or fourth day has passed, the cabin fever sets in.
Social distancing is a phrase that you may have heard often of late, but what exactly is it? Social distancing is the practise of changing behaviours that typically spread disease
South Africa has joined the World Health Organisation's (WHO) multi-country research trial to find effective treatment for COVID-19. Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland on March 19, WHO
While the rest of the world and some South Africans are hustling to frantically buy necessities for an extended quarantine amid the coronavirus outbreak, the baboons in Buffels Bay have
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced an increase in the number of COVID-19 positive cases in South Africa at a press briefing. This takes the total number to 202, an