A total of 3 758 out of a total 8 117 contacts of people who tested positive for Covid-19 have completed the 14-day monitoring process and have left isolation, the Gauteng Department of Health said in a statement on Monday.Contacts refer to individuals who were in contact with people who tested positive for Covid-19.As of…
April 23, 2020 | 11:13am Enlarge Image An employee checks transport ventilators at the end of the manufacturing process. AFP via Getty Images Almost 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who were placed on ventilators in New York’s largest hospital system have died from the coronavirus, according to a study. Overall, 88 percent of the patients…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Thursday that preliminary results from a coronavirus antibody study show the statewide infection rate is 13.9 percent, which would mean around 2.7 million residents could have carried the disease.The 3,000 samples were collected from 40 sites in 19 counties, according to Cuomo,…
Nearly 90 per cent of COVID-19 patients who were placed on ventilators in New York's largest health system DIED - and almost all of those hospitalized had underlying health conditionsThe study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, examined the electronic health records of 5,700 patients Final outcomes were known for 2,634…
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…