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Express your opinion about the SA covid-19 vaccine rollout

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Dear South Africa invites you to provide comment, input, objections or alternate solutions to the government roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced earlier this week the country had secured 20 million vaccine doses to combat the coronavirus, which are to be delivered mainly in the first half of the year. The government aim to inoculate two-thirds of the population by the end of the year.   The vaccination programme announced on Wednesday would target people at shopping malls, taxi ranks, schools, clinics and hospitals.   Last week, … Read the full article…

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Whilst world gets bored, COVID-19 at record high

Whilst the world gets bored, COVID-19 has reached a record high. There have been 365,880 positive tests in the past 3 days. Over 3,000 people died in Brazil during the same period. The sum total of deaths in Brazil was 178 only 2 months ago. This is a reminder to be cautious because the situation will worsen in our South Africa where, yesterday, there were 32 deaths. Visit the predictions I made 31 days ago. I add that the USA’s current lower figure of, on average, 1000 daily deaths, isn’t a victory or reason to relax – those figures will grow.

RECORD FOR COVID-19

Coronavirus and covid-19 sets record cases numbers at end May 2020

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Coronavirus Amplified: Part 2 – A Timeline of SARS-CoV-2

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This is how coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease CoViD-19 spread across the world. From their earliest days in China to everywhere now, it’s a scary timeline. TIMELINE 2007 October – Critical Microbiology Review warns of, “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in Southern China, is a time bomb.” 2019 November17 – verifying information from China is difficult but it was retrospectively reported that a 55-year-old man contracted the disease this day, and showed symptoms on 1 … Read the full article…

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Coronavirus Amplified: Part 1 – Defining Coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 & Covid-19

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Do you know what SARS-CoV-2 is? What about COVID-19? It’s technically incorrect to refer to our current health crisis as ‘The Coronavirus’ when it’s only one strain of several in the coronavirus family. It’s also incorrect to identify the current coronavirus as COVID-19 when the latter is a disease caused by the 7th strain. After a brief history, I’ll explain the differences and correct terminology. WHAT ARE CORONAVIRUSES Coronavirus are a family of viruses thought to be zoonotic i.e. spread from non-human animals to human animals. They can also inflict … Read the full article…

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