peterSouth Africa booze, tobacco ban created new criminal networks
Criminal operators are now embedded in the supply chain and it will take years to reverse that, tax official says. South Africa could take years to dismantle the criminal networks…
Over 1,000 new cases as SA’s Covid-19 death toll rises to 15 086
Health minister Zweli Mkhize reported 82 more Covid-19 related deaths in an update on the pandemic on Tuesday evening. “As of today, a cumulative total of 640,441 confirmed Covid-19 cases…
adminCOVID-19 impact on treatment for chronic illness revealed
The COVID-19 health crisis has caused massive disruption worldwide in diagnosing and treating people with deadly but preventable diseases, including more than one in two cancer patients, UN health experts…
In many cases, this was combined with an equally sudden shift to home schooling.
John Quiggin Contrary to what might have been expected, working from home was one part of the pandemic response that went remarkably smoothly. Most kinds of office work continued almost…
Can you catch COVID-19 from your neighbor’s toilet?
Jocelyn Kaiser Coronaviruses wafting through a Chinese apartment building’s plumbing may have infected some residents, according to a new study, raising fears of yet another way that COVID-19 could spread.…