NEWS RELATED TO covid-19-coronavirus

Another top scientist says experts are being sidelined

Malema tells NDZ he supports ongoing tobacco and alcohol ban – report

Debate over reopening US plays out online and in the streets

World

Virus challenge looms as Muslims, Christians set to gather

MJC urge Muslim community to practice physical distancing during Eid

News

Coronavirus total rises to 21,343, with Covid-19 deaths at 407

Gauteng health MEC welcomes Cuban medical experts to fight Covid-19

Home Affairs approves essential travel for South Africans to other countries

NPA says it doesn’t prosecute 25% of lockdown cases

Parents, Cosas join forces to stop govt’s ‘irrational’ reopening of schools

DA supports reopening of schools, but will monitor closely to ensure safety

Gauteng’s Covid-19 cases reach 2,521, with 73 people in hospital

SANDF updates rules for soldiers enforcing lockdown

SA performers arrive back home after being stranded in Turkey

Health department boss calls for investigation into Glenda Gray

Shopping without malls could rejuvenate economic world

The ANC wants to reshape SA … into what?

100,000 families of kids from early childhood centres benefit from JAM

Lana Marks: US ambassador to SA a real Jill of all trades

Court battle to lift ciggies, booze ban ‘will continue’

News

Disabled Alliance slams dept, Nkoana-Mashabane as ‘out of touch’

Hopes and fears abound over back-to-school plans

Covid-19: Two more healthcare workers die in the Western Cape

World

UK to introduce 14-day quarantine for international arrivals

World

South America ‘a new epicentre’ of Covid-19: WHO

Zulu’s department labelled ‘shameful’ after ‘only 10 people’ get unemployment grant

‘He died on duty, doing what he loved’ – wife’s tribute after cop husband dies of Covid-19

Measures in place to help people with disabilities amid pandemic – Nkoana-Mashabane

Covid tally rises past 20,000, with deaths nearing 400

Health

Staff, patients test positive for Covid-19 at another Durban hospital

Courts

DA wins reprieve for rights of people trying to give food to the hungry

#Saveourchildren movement gains momentum

World

Hydroxychloroquine shows no coronavirus benefit, raises death risk – study

Five police officers ‘brutally’ killed during lockdown, says Cele

Cele says 611 cops have tested positive for Covid-19

Crime

Another Eastern Cape police station closes after cop tests positive

Covid-19 has outsmarted us and has evaded the lockdown – Gift of the Givers

Dlamini-Zuma pushes for tobacco, alcohol ban to continue until Level 1 lockdown

Eastern Cape set to overtake Gauteng with second highest Covid-19 infections – DA

Lockdown food aid: SANParks to assist 7,500 families living on borders of national parks

Covid cuts in the repo rate mean R1m in home loan debt now costs R1,747 less monthly

Covid-19 related death of infant to be investigated – what we know so far

Health

Here’s what the many different models predict about Covid-19

Health

Enough ICU beds ‘could be difference between life and virus death’

Virus response is not simply a health vs economy affair

World

As pandemic rages, Trump eager to vaccinate America first

Africa

Madagascar’s ‘green gold’ ‘cure’ against Covid-19 seeks nod beyond Africa

Do not return to schools, Sadtu urges teachers in the Northern Cape

Nobody has the answer to dealing with Covid-19

Practising strict social distancing from reality

We need an SA running like my thoroughly restored scooter

Hundreds more repatriates set to come home soon

Covid-19: now the horror begins in SA hospitals

Concern as Covid-19 cases escalate in Limpopo’s mining towns

National Assembly to speed up budget for Covid-19 response

SABC employee in Western Cape tests positive for Covid-19

Premature baby’s Covid-19 death to be investigated, says Western Cape govt

Health

Gauteng plans ward-based Covid-19 response team to focus on hot spots

No visitors, 3 screenings a day – here’s Gauteng’s plan for schools reopening

Health

Tygerberg’s Covid-19 ICU beds situation ‘shouldn’t be seen in isolation’

Zulu ‘takes exception’ to claims her dept stops NGOs providing food

Africa

PICS: Madagascar’s ‘green gold’ against Covid-19 seeks nod beyond Africa

St Augustine’s: Unions, MEC not happy with UKZN report release

Actuary tells Mkhize the lockdown has achieved nothing but making the country poorer

Health

Western Cape ‘may reach ICU beds threshold as early as June’

After dressing-down, Rea Vaya adheres to Mbalula’s strict conditions

Sport

Kante stays away from Chelsea training over virus fears

News

Covid-19 cases rise to 19,137 with 30 more deaths

Makhura concerned about increasing Covid-19 cases in Ekurhuleni

Some South Africans repatriated from Wuhan now want to go back

Six nurses and four patients at Durban hospital test positive for Covid-19

Health

Patients with severe Covid-19 may suffer from insomnia, depression later

Makhura says work is being done in preparation for Level 3

Repatriation costs under R10m, while over 5,000 South Africans come home

Mahikeng Hospital decontaminated after doctor tests positive for Covid-19