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South Africa: 'We Are Dying' - Heathcare Union Threatens to Strike Amid Covid-19 Battle
Daily Maverick, 21 August 2020
The country's largest union, Nehawu, is threatening to strike as healthcare workers continue to face inadequate supplies of protective gear and public service employees demand… Read more »
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South Africa: 'We Have Lost So Much and So Many' - Nelson Mandela Bay's Head of Disaster Management On Covid-19
Daily Maverick, 20 August 2020
As Nelson Mandela Bay, a metro hard hit by Covid-19, turns a corner and sees a rapid decline in new infections, the head of the joint operations committee and the municipality's… Read more »
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South Africa: 195 More People Die of Covid-19 in SA
SAnews.gov.za, 21 August 2020
South Africa's Covid-19 death toll has increased to 12 618 after 195 people succumbed to the respiratory disease on Thursday. Read more »
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South Africa: Feeding in a Crisis - Social Protection and Governance During the Pandemic
Daily Maverick, 19 August 2020
Of the three million people who lost their jobs in South Africa, two thirds of those were women, specifically black women, meaning that they have undeniably and disproportionately… Read more »
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South Africa: Lockdown Has Left South Africa Drowning in Debt
GroundUp, 20 August 2020
New studies of the impact of lockdown on the economy paint the picture of a country locked in a downward spiral of rising joblessness and debt. Read more »
Covid-19 Takes Toll on South Africa's Healthworkers, Economy
The nation's largest union, Nehawu, has threatened a strike as healthcare workers face inadequate supplies of protective gear, and public service employees demand their salary increase for 2020. This comes as new studies on the impact of lockdown on the economy show rising joblessness and debt. The City of Cape Town also blamed the pandemic for the delay of several projects, with nearly U.S.$27.7 million to be allocated over to the City's 2020/21 adjusted budget. South Africa's Covid-19 death toll has risen to 12,618 with confirmed cases standing at 599,940 and recoveries at 497,169.
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A report by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has found that Covid-19 patients of people identified as Black African and Coloured are more likely ... Read more »
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When the novel coronavirus hit South Africa harder than any other African nation earlier this year, the government's handling of the pandemic became a rare good news story for ... Read more »
The now closed Khayelitsha Field Hospital developed by MSF to support the nearby Khayelitsha District Hospital to cope with the pressures of peak COVID-19 transmission in the Western Cape (file photo).
