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Hammanskraal residents go about their daily lives despite cholera outbreak

Despite plans for a protest in the cholera-hit township of Hammanskraal, Tshwane, the community is going about its business as normal. Residents claim that the protest was never going to materialise because the water problem in the area was not ‘something new’. According to some community members, the protest is often organised by people who want to ‘hijack’ the water challenges for their personal gain. “You know Hammanskraal has been […]

today25 May 2023

Local

Govt to improve immunisation following mumps outbreak

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says they are looking at improving immunisation following the outbreak of mumps. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the outbreak after a sharp increase in positive cases were recorded in three provinces. Most positive cases were found in children between the ages of four and nine years-old. According to the NICD, “Mumps is an acute viral infection caused by the rubulavirus, also known as mumps […]

today13 May 2023

International

Uganda sees ‘downward trend’ in Ebola cases: Health minister

INTERNATIONAL Uganda has recorded a drop in the number of new Ebola cases, with some districts going for at least two weeks without registering new infections, health ministry officials said. The development is a major sign the East African country is having a measure of success in efforts to combat its latest outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever disease more than two months after it was declared. Central Uganda’s Mubende […]

today25 November 2022

International

China locks down millions as COVID cases rise before winter

Officials in Chinese cities and provinces across the country are pulling no punches in stamping out sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks as winter nears, quickly closing venues and enforcing longer temporary lockdowns on millions of people. Cases in mainland China hit 2,898 on Sunday, topping 2,000 for a second straight day and pressuring the country’s controversial zero-COVID policy, which has hamstrung the economy and exasperated its citizens. In Guangdong province, manufacturing centre Guangzhou has seen a spate of […]

today31 October 2022

International

Uganda locks down two districts in bid to check spread of Ebola

INTERNATIONAL Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an immediate lockdown and imposition of a dusk-till-dawn curfew for three weeks in two districts in a bid to stop the spread of Ebola. Places of worship, markets, bars and entertainment will be closed and restrictions have been placed on movement in and out of the two central districts of Mubende and Kassanda for 21 days. “I now direct as follows: movements now into […]

today16 October 2022

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