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Uitenhage News: How family of 11 conquered Covid-19 storm confined to Eastern Cape home

24 July 2020 By Port Elizabethan

How family of 11 conquered Covid-19 storm confined to Eastern Cape home: As they watched while Covid-19 ravaged families across the country, a KwaNobuhle family of 11 feared they would suffer the same fate as one after the other they fell ill, until five of the 11 were dia …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

Municipality ‘deep cleans’ shacks but is it useful against COVID-19?: A new project to disinfect and “deep clean” shacks in informal settlements across the Nelson Mandela Bay metro has been met with mixed reactions from some residents. While many have welcomed the pilot …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

Not time to put EC health department under administration: Zweli Mkhize: Though the question of whether the Eastern Cape health department should be placed under administration has come up in parliament, health minister Zweli Mkhize says he is “not yet there”.
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

VWSA: Production continues at plant after brief workforce disruption: Production is continuing uninterrupted at Volkswagen’s (VWSA) Nelson Mandela Bay facilities after workers briefly downed tools at the company’s Uitenhage plant on Friday 17 July. Citing safety …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 denialists: South Africa recorded its highest official number of Covid-19 deaths yet on Wednesday – 572. Of these, 400 were from the Eastern Cape. The health department counts a total of just under 6,000 Covid-19 …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

South Africa: Municipality ‘Deep Cleans’ Shacks but There Is No Evidence This Is Useful Against Covid-19: The metro is one of the hotspots for Covid-19 cases. As of 21 July 2020, the City had recorded 17,410 Covid-19 cases with Uitenhage, KwaNobuhle, KwaZakhele and Motherwell recording more than 1,000 …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

South Africa: Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 Denialists: And yet in Uitenhage, part of Nelson Mandela Bay, you will find a shop that blatantly disregards the most important measures for controlling the spread of the virus: physical distancing and face …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

Nearly 600 deaths in a single day as SA approaches 400,000 Covid-19 cases: Mkhize told a roomful of hospital managers from Dora Nginza, Livingstone hospital and Uitenhage Provincial hospital that there should be no more delays in releasing the figures. “MEC, your reporting …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

Municipality “deep cleans” shacks but there is no evidence this is useful against Covid-19: We want residents to be relocated to better places in order for us to defeat this virus” says community leader …
Source: “Uitenhage” – BingNews.

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