The Public Servants Association of South Africa (PSA) says it is worried about their members working at Steve Biko Academic Hospital (SBAH) who are wearing black plastics as Covid-19 protective gear.
For many HIV-positive South Africans, the national lockdown has hindered their ability to easily access antiretroviral drugs and treatment. However, convenient and cost-efficient options for medicine collection are available.
A stricter curfew and tighter restrictions on alcohol sales are in the offing as South Africa enters level 3 lockdown
Covid-19 patients quarantined at Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg allege that the catering company has provided them with expired food, which they say, “makes their [health] situation worse.”
With one positive case of the virus recorded so far in Limpopo, rural communities without adequate water supply remain vulnerable to a potential outbreak in the province.
South Africa catches its first case of the virus but government maintains that it has Covid-19 under control.
In the Free State, the Dihlabeng Mayor urges his constituency to self-isolate, and healthcare workers plead with patients to follow instructions about Covid-19 prevention.
With the growing number of people with Covid-19 in the country, the National Department of Health says their top priorities are underprivileged communities and rural areas.
The closures of schools and Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDC) have put additional pressure on parents who still have to go to work despite the outbreak of Covid-19.
The new coronavirus has exposed the staggeringly uneven distribution of life-saving medical equipment across the world. Ventilators are an essential tool in the treatment of respiratory illnesses, including severe cases of COVID-19, yet across 41 African countries there are fewer than 2,000 ventilators serving hundreds of millions of people. By Joshua Setipa, Managing Director of the UN Technology Bank.
A Covid-19 survivor suffering the long-term effects of the illness has a stark warning for those who still do not believe that the coronavirus affects younger South Africans.
Although the immune systems of children and infants are resilient against contracting the coronavirus, moms who are exposed to the virus on a daily basis fear transmitting it to their new-born babies through breastfeeding.
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