Magazine staff speak after mass closuresAsked why the Western Cape had significantly more Covid-19 infections than the rest of the country, Mkhize said one of the features of the pandemic in the province was the outbreak in "clusters" of infections. These were primarily in factories and busy retail areas.Supermarkets Mbombo said the provincial government had developed…
A horror crash involving a truck and a tanker carrying a flammable substance, led to the closure of the N2, near the Mtunzini Toll Plaza on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, on Saturday."Reports from the scene indicate that two trucks, one being a tanker transporting a flammable liquid, collided, resulting in both trucks overturning, blocking the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.New questions have emerged this week over the accuracy of the COVID-19 death numbers.The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 has sparked debate, with some claiming they are being undercounted, while others -- even top U.S. officials -- contending COVID-19…
Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust, an emergency medicine physician and instructor at Harvard Medical School, has published a blog post on Scientific American calling on the Center for Disease Control to change the way it reports flu deaths, suggesting that those figures may be misleading the public about the lethality of the coronavirus. Dr. Faust draws attention…
KwaZulu-Natal police have launched an investigation after a nurse was found dead inside a toilet at Addington Hospital in Durban. According to police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala, the healthcare worker, who had reportedly tested negative for Covid-19, was found dead in the restroom last Thursday. "The circumstances surrounding the incident are still being investigated," Gwala said. Democratic Nursing…
3 min read IN THIS DAY and age it can be easy to drift in and out while watching a TV show or movie. Everybody's focus is fractured, we're all overstimulated, and attention has become a currency. And if we're being honest, there are some shows or movies where you can look a away for
You probably don’t need a survey to tell you parents are stressed out right now, but in case you do: A recent government report found that 48% of parents say that their stress is “completely overwhelming” on most days—more than double what other adults report. Why am I mentioning this? The new Dietary Guidelines for
13 min read I'M STOOD IN the immigration queue at Düsseldorf airport, here to attend the Ed Sheeran Mathematics tour, one of the last stops in what has been an epic four-year journey for the 34-year-old. Selling 8.8 million tickets across 188 dates, it has become the fourth-highest grossing tour of all time, behind only