Police and pupils clashed at a school in Durban after a protest over a teacher testing positive at the school.The KwaZulu-Natal education department said an arrangement had been agreed on to separate and isolate exposed pupils.The department said the Community Safety MEC would investigate if there was any police heavy-handedness.A teacher testing positive for Covid-19…
Learners compliance with health, safety and social distancing requirements during the reopening of schools to ensure safety of learners at Rev. A Mapheto Primary School in Tembisa.(Photo: GCIS) 523 pupils, 1 169 staff members and 775 schools have been affected by Covid-19, according to the Department of Basic Education. The department urged schools to follow…
A worker sanitises a classroom. The 557 positive cases were recorded from schools in 10 districts. The infected are 270 pupils, 271 teachers and 16 support staff. As things stand, 154 schools from six districts have temporarily shut due to Covid-19. More than 550 pupils, teachers and support staff have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Eastern…
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga during a visit to Seshegong Secondary School in Gauteng to check readiness for the reopening of schools. Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images via Getty Images According to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, 98% of all pupils are back at school.She does not expect things to go back to normal for two…
Nyanga High School in Ngcobo is respected for producing top achieving pupils and for having a good matric pass rate.The school has now cancelled the second phasing-in of Grade 9 pupils scheduled for Monday.More pupils are currently being tested at the school.Eighteen pupils have tested positive for Covid-19 at top rural Eastern Cape boarding school,…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara