Covid19
UK to announce new international travel rules
The UK has set a tentative date of 17 May to relaunch foreign travel, currently banned except for a handful of permitted reasons.
In Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, nearly 60,000 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.
Customers must pre-book appointments before visiting shops, and up to 20 people will be allowed inside at a time.
Pulmonologist doctor Dante Plekker said speeding up vaccinations is crucial now more than ever.
The country is currently under alert level 1 lockdown, with alcohol and tobacco sales allowed and religious gatherings permitted among others.
The coronavirus crisis has wreaked a devastating toll on older people and solidarity between the generations will be crucial to the global recovery.
Magufuli was one of a handful of world leaders who scoffed at the coronavirus, championing alternative medicines and calling for prayer instead of face masks.
Professor Alex van den Heever, health and social security systems specialist, warned that the approaching Easter period could cause a spike in cases.
Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were United States with 1,752 new deaths, followed by Brazil with 1,555 and Mexico with 779.
Ethiopia has so far reported 165,029 cases of Covid-19, the fifth-highest total in Africa and the highest in East Africa.
Electronics and textile exports such as masks contributed to the spike in outbound shipments.
The recovery rate is sitting at 94,7 percent meaning over 1,439 million people recovered from the virus since its outbreak last year in March.
At least 116,031,470 cases of coronavirus have been registered.
Cosatu tabled numerous reform suggestions at Nedlac which include the increase of severance pay among others.
The WHO said people should not think the crisis is over because of the global vaccine rollout.
The South African Medical Research Council’s Professor Glenda Gray said while the aid while SA made promising strides, there were some lessons from the first phase.
The first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo also received a jab, one day before the rest of the 600,000 doses are deployed across the country.
Only 273,000 AstraZeneca doses have been administered in France out of 1.7 million received as of end-February, according to health ministry figures.
The Competition Commission said that the massive overcharge was not even comparable to the Dis-Chem price gouging matter which was heard last year.