run, cycle and walk from 1 May but only within a 5km radius from their homes between 06:00 and 09:00, and not in groups.In Sea Point, Cape Town, residents used the opportunity to stretch their legs, despite the misty conditions.Cyclists were also happy to be out and about in the Helderberg Nature Reserve. One rider told…
200 Cuban health professionals arrived at the Waterkloof Air Force Base on Sunday after the South African government requested their assistance, News24 reported.The document, verified by News24, is a request to the Treasury to release funds to pay for the Cuban assistance and the team's stay in South Africa.It lays out planning for the arrival…
With three million South Africans without water, tanks are not enough to address the challenge, the South African Local Government Association has said.It has also asked municipalities not to disconnect residents' water or electricity during the lockdown, which could lead to some municipalities not being able to pay their Eskom debt.The association was making a…
South Asia could face a further public health crisis as children miss routine vaccinations, the UN warned on Tuesday, spurring fears that the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic might reverse hard-earned gains in the region. The United Nations children's agency Unicef said hundreds of thousands were at risk as lockdowns across South Asia halted…
South Africans older than 60 may face many more months at home under proposed "risk-adjusted" lockdown rules from 1 May, if the projected coronavirus peak indeed hits the country around September.President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a raft of measures on Thursday to open the economy and sectors of society under a new, five-level alert system.He said:…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that