Last night President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the coronavirus pandemic a national disaster, and has introduced a host of interventions to curb the spread of the disease in South Africa, including school and port of entry closures, as well as imposing a travel ban on foreign nationals from countries with the highest rates of infection. The […]
Read MoreAs governments around the globe battle to contain the spread of covid-19, the role of public health has been brought into stark focus. Iran, crippled by US sanctions and without some of the most basic pubic health infrastructures, has seen infection rates increase exponentially. Economically secure nations aren’t safe either. Italy has some of the […]
Read MoreThe 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), known colloquially as coronavirus, is a new type respiratory illness first identified in Wuhan, China. It has since gone on to claim more lives than the 2002/2003 SARs outbreak, prompting global fears of a potential pandemic. Person-to-person infection occurs through respiratory droplets – when someone with the virus coughs or […]
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