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Cape Town wholesaler provides elderly with free coronavirus care packages

One local businessman has opted to help the elderly community of Cape Town with coronavirus care packages, because he says, they will suffer the most. The Mr Cheap wholesaler in Lansdowne opens at 09:00, but pensioners from surrounding communities start queuing here from as early as 08:30 already, waiting patiently for the store's steel grill doors to open. The wholesaler is giving care packages away to people over the age […]

23 March 2020

News

MJC unpacks consequences of COVID19 for Muslims

By Aneeqa Du Plessis Darul Islam High school hall was filled with various Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) senior ulema, shuyookh, school principals, madaris, hifth teachers and other Islamic organisations who gathered on Wednesday to be briefed by medical professionals and alims on a collective response and way forward in dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus. The information session concentrated on the Islamic jurisprudential aspects relevant to how the Muslim community […]

12 March 2020

Local

SAA says adhering to safety protocols on Covid-19

National carrier South African Airways said on Thursday its operational health and safety procedures were in line with the World Health Organisation’s protocols to protect its passengers and crew from contracting Covid-19. On Wednesday WHO declared the coronavirus disease a pandemic as it continues to spread around the world after being first detected in China in December. "SAA follows procedures, advice and guidelines from the Centre for Disease Control and […]

12 March 2020

International News

Philippines reports coronavirus death, China toll reaches 304

The Philippines reported the first death outside China on Sunday from a new coronavirus that has now killed at least 304 people, infected thousands and spread to dozens of other countries. The man who died in the Philippines was from Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus is thought to have originated late last year. He was 44. "This is the first reported death outside China," Rabindra Abeyasinghe, the World Health Organization (WHO) […]

2 February 2020

International News

Australia scientists to share lab-grown coronavirus to hasten vaccine efforts

A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of the new coronavirus, the first to be recreated outside of China, in a breakthrough that could help quicken the creation of a vaccine. The researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne said they would share the sample, which was grown from an infected patient, with the World Health Organization and […]

31 January 2020

Local

‘We are on high alert’ – No confirmed coronavirus cases in SA, says Health Minister Zweli Mkhize

There has been no confirmed case of the coronavirus in South Africa, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Mkhize and health officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) addressed the media in Johannesburg on Friday morning. At least 213 people have died in China and almost 10 000 cases of the virus have been reported. The minister welcomed the WHO's declaration of […]

31 January 2020

International News

UAE confirms first cases of new coronavirus

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed the first cases in the Middle East of the new deadly coronavirus, saying that doctors were treating a family that had recently come from a city at the centre of the outbreak. The UAE's Ministry of Health said on Wednesday it had diagnosed the coronavirus in the Chinese family. Those diagnosed with the virus were in stable condition and under medical observation, the […]

29 January 2020

International News

China broadens lockdowns as coronavirus death toll rises

China has stepped up its response to a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 26 people and infected at least 830, placing restrictions on 10 cities Hubei province - the centre of the outbreak. More than 20.5 million people are living in the cities affected, some of which have suspended public transport amid fears that the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel for the Lunar New Year. Health authorities around […]

24 January 2020

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