Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo at the construction of the Temporary Relocation Area at Marlboro, Johannesburg. Sharon Seretlo, Gallo Images Johannesburg Mayor Geoff Makhubo has unveiled the land which will be used to house relocated residents in congested Covid-19 hotspots. Makhubo said 1 600 people in Wards 109 and 108 would be relocated in the next four…
Eastern Cape hotspots will be divided up into sub-districts to "decentralise" the fight against Covid-19 in the province.It currently has the second highest mortality rate in the country.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says the province is "especially vulnerable" due to its proximity to the Western Cape.The Eastern Cape's Covid-19 hotspots will be divided into sub-districts to…
News24 reported that the City of Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni metro in Gauteng, eThekwini metro and iLembe District in KwaZulu-Natal, Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay metros in the Eastern Cape, as well as the Cape Town City metro and the Cape Winelands district in the Western Cape have the highest number of Covid-19 infections in the country.…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out