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‘I was so scared and thought that I was going to die’ – breast cancer survivor shares her story

A breast-cancer survivor from a rural Limpopo village shares how understanding the disease helped her beat it. Breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the world most-diagnosed cancer, but survival rates are low in low-income countries.
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Electronic registration system for the Covid-19 vaccine tightened amid fraud claims

Reports of fraudulent vaccinations has led to tighter measures around the Electronic Vaccination Data System. Doctors in private practice are accused of registering their employees and family members to receive the Covid-19 vaccine during the country’s first phase of the national rollout.
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One year of the Covid-19 pandemic survivors speak

One year of Covid-19 in SA: ‘I don’t wish anyone to go through what I went through’

In the year since the coronavirus was recorded in South Africa, more than 50,000 people have died and the country has been profoundly affected. Health-e News spoke to survivors of Covid-19, and those grieving the loss brought by the pandemic.
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