A 300-bed quarantine site has been opened up on Old Mutual premises in Pinelands in Cape Town. (Jan Ras, News24) The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered that any person who has tested positive for Covid-19 cannot be forced to quarantine or be isolated at a state facility, if that person is able to…
gazetted on Friday, there will be strict screening for Covid-19 at schools, and parents and guardians should start thinking of a Plan B for transport if their child is found to have one of the following symptoms during the screening:- Cough, sore throat, redness of eyes, shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing, body aches,…
Ramaphosa lifts ban on religious gatherings"We understand the great impact that the closure of places of worship have had on members of the faith community, and that this has worsened the distress of communities who are unable to worship in congregation," Ramaphosa said. He said religious leaders will, therefore, be recognised as essential religious frontline workers…
After rules ease, North Carolina's 7-day average of new coronavirus cases hits new high Hide Transcript Show Transcript STARTS RIGHT NOW. BREA: EXPANDING TESTING -- HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE LINED UP TO BE SCREENED FOR COVID-19 AS THE PIEDMONT TRIAD COUNTY HOSTS ITS FIRST MASS TESTING EVENT. ALSO, A MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS IN CHILDREN BELIEVED TO BE…
The federal government has received plenty of well-deserved flack for slow-rolling the national launch of diagnostic tests for Covid-19. First came the flawed swab-based tests from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, followed by a chaotic, lost month of regulatory tango that prevented independent tests from getting scaled and out the door. So when…
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