Nurses at a quarantine centre for Covid-19. A Middelburg woman left home in fear of being victimised after testing positive for Covid-19.A local councillor says stigma around Covid-19 is getting worse in the area.People are demanding the government tell them on which street infected community members live.Stigma surrounding Covid-19 has affected one Middelburg woman, who…
A laboratory technician simulates the pipetting of a nasal pharyngeal swab to extract RNA while demonstrating the Covid-19 test kits. Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg via Getty Images Testing positive for Covid-19 cannot be the sole ground for dismissal, says CCMA.The dispute resolution body has received 278 referrals on unfair dismissals related to the virus.Fears surrounding Covid-19…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have