President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, shown in 2019, have faced criticism for their handling of the coronavirus. Both are now pushing hard for a vaccine. The United States has already agreed to pay a drug company more than $1 billion to produce a vaccine that's yet to be approved. Xi says if China…
DispatchLive.The department and province's health authorities are set to battle it out over whether labour safety provisions trump the hospital's mandate to provide healthcare and the public's right to treatment during a pandemic.On Friday, Eastern Cape health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo confirmed to DispatchLive it had lodged an urgent court interdict to challenge the notice…
haven't been tested and are living in a place teeming with cockroaches and rotten cardboard. They reportedly also said that they were being served "substandard" food. The Mpumalanga Department of Health initially quarantined 115 people at the resort, which is owned by the Mpumalanga Parks and Tourism Agency. Twenty of them were international tourists. Eight left…
Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot (Getty Images) Former England captain Bill Beaumont will serve for another four years as World Rugby chairperson after he was re-elected for the role having beaten ex-Argentina skipper Agustin Pichot in a tight two-man vote.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021Beaumont, 68, claimed…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…