NEWS RELATED TO covid-19-coronavirus

Tobacco organisation calls for unbanning of cigarettes under Level 3

Potch Hospital’s outpatient department closed after nurse tested positive

Crime

SAPS capacitates its complaints centre to deal with allegations of police brutality

Could these cartoon-films help your family deal with Covid-19 stress?

Another school in Cape Town hit by Covid-19 case during prep week

First screening and testing site at shopping centre launched in Gauteng

Health

Washing hands six to 10 times a day could cut risk of seasonal coronaviruses

Coronavirus delivers R943m revenue blow to Netcare as people delay their treatments

Health

SAMRC clears Glenda Gray of wrongdoing after she called lockdown rules ‘nonsense’

Reports that SAA Wuhan ‘repatriation pilot’ died of Covid-19 untrue

Metrorail in Gauteng not ready to operate under Level 3, says committee

Auckland Park SABC confirms second employee tests positive for Covid-19

Sport

Premier League to vote on return of contact training

Gauteng department of employment and labour officials to test for Covid-19

Scientists fight online virus misinformation war

NGO slams social development dept’s ‘aloofness’ to hunger crisis

Government ‘buckled under pressure to move to Level 3’

Ndlozi invites derision for saying ‘lockdown was for the white community’

DA calls for special inspector-general to prevent graft in relief fund

Help to eradicate WC’s 18,000-test backlog, Mkhize – Winde

News

52 more virus deaths as number of total cases reaches 23,615

Teachers need more time to prepare – Sadtu KZN

26 people test positive for Covid-19 at Mediclinic Cape Town

World

WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trial as Covid-19 treatment

Educators Union threatens legal action over ‘unsafe’ reopening of schools

I understand the concerns about schools, I am also a mother – Motshekga

What the WHO says about smoking during Covid-19

Virtual open day on the cards for Gauteng parents to evaluate school readiness

World

Covid-19 deaths top 4,000 in under-fire Sweden

Staffer at a Cape Town primary school tests positive for Covid-19

If we can’t go to church now, then don’t use churches for elections, ACDP leader tells ANC

Sport

La Liga return ‘what we all need’, says Atletico’s Correa

WEF video saying you’re likely to catch Covid-19 in your home met with criticism

Gauteng has 2,773 confirmed coronavirus cases and 29 deaths

Saftu threatens to strike if public servants are forced back to work in level 3

World

Sweden’s coronavirus deaths pass 4,000

Africa

Madagascar sends troops, doctors to virus-hit eastern town

Intimidation aimed at silencing opposing views unacceptable – Steenhuisen

Bidvest was given no tender, they offered a PPE donation, explains Lesufi

Crime

Another inmate dies with coronavirus at East London prison

DA accuses ANC Ekurhuleni of continuing to politicise Covid-19 food relief

Helen Joseph Hospital staff protest after nurses test positive for Covid-19

Health

WATCH: It’s back to gym for fitness enthusiasts in Soweto

Health

Lockdown in numbers since beginning of Level 5

What South Africa can learn about the reopening of schools around the world

Ramaphosa must end the lockdown today, not next week, says Steenhuisen

Sport

China’s football team ‘more united’ under coronavirus

GUIDE: How parents can check readiness of schools

EFF rejects ‘reckless and senseless’ Level 3 announcement

Glenda Gray banned from speaking to media as SAMRC apologises

Crime

Cops and soldiers had no training on lockdown regulations, which explains a lot, says DA

No parent will be forced to send a child to school in level 3

Africa

On Africa Day, Ramaphosa praises the continent for its ‘swiftness’ in battling Covid-19

Health

Ramaphosa calls on citizens to play their part as lockdown level eases

Partial reopening of religious services being considered – Ramaphosa

World

A world redrawn: US coronavirus response fatally ‘chaotic,’ says Noam Chomsky

Call to help feed more people affected by Covid-19 in Limpopo

NICD’s breakthrough in culturing coronavirus takes SA a step closer to cracking it

Social security agency needs more staff, says DA

Lockdown Diaries: Death is a fact of life we seem to have forgotten

SA’s smokers are left fuming

Crime

Crime will be back soon with a vengeance, experts warn

The science behind Level 3: Ramaphosa lauds ‘diverse and sometimes challenging views’

SA to move to Level 3, but risk of infections now even greater – Ramaphosa

Soup kitchens can no longer be policed or controlled, court says

FULL SPEECH: Ramaphosa outlines how life in Level 3 lockdown will look

Eid celebrations delayed until Monday

Confirmed: Curfew lifted, alcohol sales back, exercise at any time, but tobacco still banned

Delay in delivery of PPE, so KZN asks school staff to return on Thursday

You don’t have to tell a police officer where you got your smokes

Churches put faith in Ramaphosa for financial relief

Tourism industry working around the clock to prevent loss of up to 600 000 jobs

Work halted at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine after 53 employees test positive for Covid-19

Travel

The future of travel after Covid-19: Part 2

Eastern Cape mayor Khanyile Maneli loses wife to Covid-19