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Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images The Department of Health has reported 1 346 new Covid-19 cases.This brings the cumulative number of cases to 663 282.South Africa has recorded a recovery rate of 89.4%.The Department of Health has recorded 1 346 new Covid-19 cases as of Tuesday, bringing the cumulative number of detected ones to…

In the predawn hours of March 30, Dr. Deborah Birx stepped in front of the camera on the White House lawn and made an alarming prediction about the coronavirus, which had, by then, killed fewer than 3,000 people in the United States."If we do things together, well, almost perfectly, we can get in the range…

Tributes are pouring in for the late independent legal analyst Phephelaphi Dube. Professor Thuli Madonsela described her as a diligent and kind person. Dube's friend, legal journalist Karyn Maughan, also paid tribute to her. Independent legal analyst Phephelaphi Dube has died.Paying tribute to her, Professor Thuli Madonsela described Dube as "smart, knowledgeable, diligent, kind, humble and helpful"."I have…

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will enable U.S. President Donald Trump to nominate a third jurist to the Supreme Court.The US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Earlier this month, the US President announced a list of 20 potential contenders…

Health 16 September 2020 By Adam Vaughan A burial taking place in a cemetery in Manaus, BrazilMichael Dantas/AFP Via Getty Images IT BEGAN on 9 January. In a hospital in Wuhan, China, a 61-year-old man became the first person on the planet confirmed to have died from a new coronavirus. At the time, scientists didn’t…