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Emergency calls spike post COVID-19 restrictions: City of Cape Town

The City of Cape Town says emergency calls have spiked following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith says there were nearly 200 000 recorded complaints in the 2021/22 period. Smith says they’ve noticed an increase in medical incidents, noise complaints, and assault cases. He says the latest report shows a significant drop in reported incidents of domestic violence. “The increase in domestic […]

22 October 2022

Local

CPT emergency center reports increase in trauma, assault cases

LOCAL The City of Cape Town’s Emergency Centre says there has been a notable increase in trauma and assault cases over the past few weeks. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says the overall spiked from just over 1700 to 1900. Smith says there have also been increases in the number of domestic violence calls. “We tend to see an increase in these categories as we near […]

27 September 2022

International News

Deadly gas leak at India chemical plant, hundreds hospitalised

At least nine people have been killed and several hundred admitted to local hospitals after a gas leak at a chemicals plant on the east coast of India, police said on Thursday. Swarupa Rani, an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Visakhapatnam, told Reuters that at least nine people had died and between 300-400 were hospitalised. Another 1,500 people had been evacuated, mostly from a neighbouring village. The commissioner of the […]

7 May 2020

International News

Gaza living conditions constitute ‘humanitarian emergency’, NGO says

Living conditions in Gaza have declined to their lowest ebb outside of war time, Medical Aid for Palestinians said on Thursday, describing the situation in the coastal strip a “humanitarian emergency.” The Israeli blockade since 2007 has restricted the electricity flow, which damages vital infrastructure, the statement says. Water treatment and desalination plants cannot function effectively, causing pollution along 73 percent of the shoreline. A five year old boy died […]

25 August 2017

International News

Scores killed as landslides devastate Colombia’s Mocoa

At least 254 people have been killed and hundreds more are missing after torrential rains triggered severe flooding and mudslides in the city of Mocoa, in southwest Colombia, according to a statement released by the army. Heavy overnight rainfall caused several rivers to overflow their banks, sending mud and debris crashing onto houses as people slept and sweeping away vehicles and trees. Many of the victims did not have enough […]

2 April 2017

International News

Nigeria declares pollution in southern city an emergency

Nigeria declared an air pollution emergency in a major southern city on Tuesday and closed an asphalt plant there after residents complained about the fumes from its furnaces, in a country plagued by corruption and poor governance. Residents staged a protest in Port Harcourt, a harbor city in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, waving their hands in the air to show the soot stains from touching cars. "The Federal Ministry […]

15 February 2017

emergency

Emergency calls spike post COVID-19 restrictions: City of Cape Town

CPT emergency center reports increase in trauma, assault cases

Deadly gas leak at India chemical plant, hundreds hospitalised

Gaza living conditions constitute ‘humanitarian emergency’, NGO says

Scores killed as landslides devastate Colombia’s Mocoa

Nigeria declares pollution in southern city an emergency

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