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Mpact expands face shield range - adults, kids, hardhat shields and respiratory masks

Mpact expands face shield range - adults, kids, hardhat shields and respiratory masks

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Coronavirus risks forcing South Africa to make health trade-offs it can ill afford

Karen Hofman & Susan Goldstein 17 Apr 2020

#Covid-19: Bizcommunity takes business virtual, as usual

#Covid-19: Bizcommunity takes business virtual, as usual

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State of disaster - how applying mining principles to other industries could help mitigate risk

Lili Nupen, Nicole Limberis-Ritchie & Chantal Murdock 23 Mar 2020

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

Alex Broadbent and Benjamin T H Smart 23 Mar 2020

Our health is our humanity

Our health is our humanity

Amy Pieterse, Ginkgo Agency 23 Mar 2020

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More than 600 cases of #Covid-19 in Africa

20 Mar 2020

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Blood groups - and their antibodies - are being explored in immunity to SARS-CoV2

Glenda Mary Davison 19 Mar 2020

CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel. Photo: United States Centers for Disease Control via Wikimedia (public domain)

Covid-19: Why "test, test, test" is easier said than done

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 18 Mar 2020

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Covid-19 in Africa: fewer cases so far, and more preparation needed

Akebe Luther King Abia 18 Mar 2020

Covid-19: Alibaba Foundation, Jack Ma Foundation to donate medical supplies to Africa

Covid-19: Alibaba Foundation, Jack Ma Foundation to donate medical supplies to Africa

18 Mar 2020

A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Society's most vulnerable will be hit as Covid-19 cases rise in poorer economies

David Evans & Mead Over 17 Mar 2020

LVMH makes free sanitiser for French hospitals during Covid-19 outbreak

LVMH makes free sanitiser for French hospitals during Covid-19 outbreak

16 Mar 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Covid-19 declared national disaster

16 Mar 2020

The St Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty with mask-wearing women holding stretchers at the backs of ambulances during the global flu epidemic, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
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South Africa bungled the Spanish flu in 1918. History mustn't repeat itself for Covid-19

Howard Phillips 13 Mar 2020

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Six new cases of coronavirus confirmed in SA

11 Mar 2020

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7 science-based strategies to cope with coronavirus anxiety

Jelena Kecmanovic 11 Mar 2020

It’s a matter of scale.
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What's the difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak?

Rebecca S.B. Fischer 10 Mar 2020

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9 Mar 2020

City Lodge Hotel Group launches coronavirus protocol

City Lodge Hotel Group launches coronavirus protocol

City Lodge Hotels 9 Mar 2020

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

6 Mar 2020

Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize

#BREAKINGNEWS: First case of #Covid-19 in South Africa

5 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

Bill Chen at San Francisco International Airport after arriving on a flight from Shanghai. Chen said his temperature was screened at the Shanghai airport before he departed.
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Airplanes spread diseases quickly - so maybe unvaccinated people shouldn't be allowed to fly

Christopher Robertson & Keith Joiner 4 Mar 2020

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Plans to evacuate South Africans from Wuhan City

2 Mar 2020

VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

Ozayr Patel 2 Mar 2020

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Two South Africans in Japan test positive for Coronavirus

28 Feb 2020

Ebola posters in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

28 Feb 2020

Commuters jam a Toronto subway platform. Widespread adoption of habits that help prevent infection may boost behavioural herd immunity.
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Coronavirus: How behaviour can help control the spread of COVID-19

Peter Hall 27 Feb 2020

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Health facilities on high alert to deal with coronavirus

18 Feb 2020

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