Cape Town residents lining-up outside a liquor store in Green Point after a hoax message that alcohol sales was about to be banned again went viral. Rumours that had surfaced alleging that the ban on the sale of alcohol would be reinstated on Tuesday evening, were not true. This was according to Cooperative Governance and Traditional…
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. In court papers, Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma continues to justify the temporary prohibition on alcohol sales.This against the backdrop of the government having been advised to lift the ban.Dlamini-Zuma noted admissions to emergency rooms dropped during the first ban, freeing up hospital beds and medical staff.While an…
South Africa instituted its ban on the sale of cigarettes in late March, 2020. Any benefit achieved by the continued ban on tobacco sales would be outweighed by far by the damage caused, British American Tobacco SA's legal team argued in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. BATSA - South Africa's largest cigarette manufacturer,…
A nurse performs a swab test for Covid-19. The ban on alcohol sales is expected to reduce trauma admissions by 50 000 cases over eight weeks.This should save R1.3 billion and enable the treatment of about 18 000 Covid-19 patients in general wards or about 13 000 in ICU wards.Other measures than a ban would…
Minister of Health, Zweli Mkhize. The issue of alcohol-related trauma cases has been tabled before the National Coronavirus Command Council.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says an increase in trauma cases that are alcohol related is putting a strain on the health system.The ban on alcohol sales was lifted on 1 June when Level 3 lockdown regulations…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the United States, 1 in every 250 people has inherited a genetic variant that leads to dangerously high cholesterol levels from birth. If high cholesterol isn't lowered early, people with this genetic condition, called familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), have a high risk of having a heart attack or stroke as early
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