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Gauteng Premier David Makhura has warned that the province is burning with Covid-19 and that residents should not take the third wave lightly.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representatives. His speech appears below:
Mr. Speaker, the United States Congress is a 19th century body in a 20th century world. In the field of civil rights we are still conducting ourselves along the pattern of yesterdays world. Tremendous changes are taking place in our country eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship. Yet the United States Congress has done absolutely nothing in this sphere. We are behind the times. We are a legislative anachronism. In an age of atomic energy, our dynamic is no more powerful than a watermill.
The executive and the judicial branches of our Government have passed us by so completely and are so far ahead that the peoples of our Nation do not even look to the United States Congress any longer for any dynamic leadership in the field of making democracy real. So many changes, tremendous changes, have taken place under our Supreme Court and under the leadership of President Eisenhower that many of the civil rights bills which I used to introduce are no longer of any value. This year, for instance, I did not introduced the bill to abolish segregation in the Armed Forces--it was not needed. Nor did I introduce the bill to guarantee civil rights in the District of Columbia-it was not needed.
I think it highly significant to point out that the appointment of my distinguished colleagues, Representatives Diggs, of Detroit, Mich., and Dawson, of Chicago, Ill., to the Veterans Affairs Committee and the District of Columbia Committee, respectively, was due entirely to the changing climate.
Two years ago the leadership of this House, Republican or Democrat, would not have dared to place a Negro on either of these two committees because both were committees which dealt with segregation.
Our Veterans Administration rigidly maintained the bars
A record number of people were in hospitals Wednesday in Georgia with confirmed COVID-19 infections, another signal that infections are now more widespread than at the previous summer peak, as public health authorities sought to raise the alarm that the coronavirus is spreading unabated across the state. In Atlanta, a group called COVID Survivors for Change set out 1,000 chairs […]
Press Release:- Today, Friday, June 18, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of 7 new cases of COVID-19 from the Ezra Long Laboratory. This is from a batch of 275 samples that were taken from June 15 to June 17. These samples were all processed on Thursday, June 17. These newly diagnosed […]
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Press Release:- Today Wednesday April 21, 2021 the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation from the Ezra Long Laboratory of 25 new cases of COVID-19. This is from a total of 160 samples taken on April 19, 2021 and April 20, 2021. These samples were processed on April 20, 2021. All of these individuals […]
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CMO WARNS THAT NON-ADHERENCE TO COVID-19 PRACTICES MAY SET OFF FOURTH WAVE OF THE DISEASE.
The difference between cloth face coverings and hospital masks is that homemade masks are not FDA regulated.
Homemade masks can reduce the chance that the wearer transmits the virus to other individuals, but they doesn’t necessarily protect the wearer.
“Hospital masks are regulated and protects the wearer by forming a barrier to the virus itself or body fluids that contain the viruses,” says Dr. Kamo Sidhwa, infectious disease specialist at Advocate South Suburban Hospital.
There is no sound data about which type of homemade masks offer the most protection.
“I would recommend any homemade mask that fits over an individual’s mouth and nose and which fits snugly with no gaps but not so tight fitting that it is difficult to breathe,” Dr. Sidhwa says.
Press Release:- Today, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of 10 new cases of COVID-19 from the Ezra Long Laboratory. This is from a batch of 134 samples that were taken on June 5. They were all processed on Monday, June 7. These newly diagnosed individuals were seen at […]
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Dar es Salaam — Tanzania expects tourists from at least four countries to start arriving in the country anytime from this month to July, the Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) announced yesterday.
TTB managing director Devota Mdachi said yesterday they have been in talks with a number of countries especially those that have witnessed a decline in Covid-19 infections and that the countries have shown intention of bringing tourists into the country.
TTB chairman Judge (rtd) Thomas Mihayo said following the Covid-19 outbreak, the board came up with long and short term strategies that saw the country continue with promotion of its tourist attractions.
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Last week, the ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, and other stakeholders agreed to formulate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on how to manage tourist activities in the country.
He said TTB will also inspect the areas to ensure that the services adhere to safety rules as well as equipping themselves with emergency services in accordance with the SOPs
He further said they will hold talks with the embassies, tourist market ambassadors in the country to assure them of what the government was doing to ensure the safety of the visitors.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The country's COVID-19 positivity rate on Saturday maintained a surge above 10 per cent with seven virus-related fatalities reported raising the nationwide death toll since April 2020 to 1, 908 cases.
