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CoJ Budget a balancing act focusing on impact of COVID – local govt specialist
While the city announced rates and taxes increases during Tuesday’s Budget release, it has also emphasised its commitment to providing struggling residents with debt relief.
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Mkhize: Digital Vibes contract was irregular & wasteful, investigators find
The department addressed the media on Wednesday morning regarding a forensic investigation and a probe by the Special Investigating Unit looking into a contract worth R150 million.
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COVID-19: SA records 102 deaths and 3,084 new cases
These fatalities - recorded over the past 24 hours - bring the country’s known death toll since the start of the pandemic to 55,976.
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Variant first detected in India found in at least 53 territories: WHO
Additionally, the WHO has received information from unofficial sources that the B.1.617 variant has been found in seven other territories, figures in the UN health agency's weekly epidemiological update showed, taking the total to 60.
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Thousands to get Covid tested after Melbourne stadium alert
The AFL said thousands of fans who sat near the positive case were now required to self-isolate until they received a negative test, while health officials were reviewing CCTV to determine if others had also been impacted.
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Lowry welcomes return of fans at British Open
Several pilot events have been staged in the UK to test the return of fans to sport, with the FA Cup final and Premier League matches allowed reduced capacities recently.
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Countries urge deeper probe of COVID-19 origins at WHO meet
The European Union, Australia and Japan were among others to call for more progress on the investigation, while the British representative urged for any probe to be 'timely, expert-driven and grounded in robust science'.
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Despite COVID-19, foreign tourists still travelling to SA - StatsSA
The latest Travel and Migration report showed that more than 635,000 travellers passed through South African ports of entry in March.
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Two million rushed to shelters as India braces for another cyclone
Cyclone Yaas in the Bay of Bengal is expected to slam into West Bengal and Odisha states around midday on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department said, and could bring winds of up to 165 kilometres (100 miles) per hour.
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Black Sash pushes for COVID relief funds to continue, says no word from govt
The group also recently called on Sassa to pay people who have not yet been paid.
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Gun homicides surge in US as COVID lockdowns end
Local media counted 12 dead and at least 43 injured in Chicago alone, while New York had around 30 people shot and one dead, mostly blamed on gang feuds, arguments at bars and parties, with innocent bystanders among the casualties.
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Hong Kong could soon bin millions of unused vaccine doses
Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world fortunate enough to have secured more than enough doses to inoculate its entire population of 7.5 million people.
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72 more COVID-19 deaths take SA’s toll to 55,874
The Department of Health said 2,383 infections were also detected over that period, with the caseload ballooning to 1 637 848.
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Citing COVID-19 risk, US warns against travel to Olympic host Japan
The warning came in a travel advisory issued by the State Department as Japan, which has been criticised for its slow inoculation rate, opened its first mass vaccination centers in a push ahead of the Olympics, which were postponed last year due to the pandemic.
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Major cruise lines to restart voyages for vaccinated passengers
Carnival and Royal Caribbean said late last week their first post-pandemic cruises will set sail in July, after the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) earlier this month gave the green light to allow trips with passengers and crew who received COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Ramaphosa: We need to unpack global lessons of COVID-19 as we plan for future
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the pandemic had demonstrated how interconnected and dependent countries were on each other.
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UN chief: We must apply wartime logic to COVID response inequalities
Antonio Guterres warned the crisis was far from over despite rapidly advancing vaccination rollouts in wealthy parts of the world.
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President Ramaphosa calls for equal access to vaccines at World Health Assembly
Addressing the 74th World Health Assembly on 24 May, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the divide in the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations around the world needed to be attended to urgently. Ramaphosa urged all countries to support the call for a limited waiver on intellectual property rights in order to share technologies to produce vaccines at lower prices.
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Ramaphosa calls for global health council to support response to pandemics
In a brief address at the hybrid 74th World Health Assembly, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that while millions of people in wealthier nations had been vaccinated, billions of others in poorer countries were still waiting and were vulnerable to infection, disease and death.
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6 Strand mosques placed under lockdown after COVID-19 infections, imam's death
On Sunday night, the council held an emergency meeting after its senior imam was hospitalised. Moulana Ghosain Rhoda passed away on Monday morning died due to COVID-19-related complications.
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Mass evacuations as second cyclone in a week forms off India
The cyclones are hitting as India reels from a surge in coronavirus infections that has plunged the healthcare system into crisis and pushed the country's COVID-19 death toll above 300,000.
