South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 2

[Lupus]

/points slightly to the left

Keep it there

 

[dualmeister]

Dodging questions: Dlamini-Zuma does not have available the reasons a state of disaster was declared https://www.news24.com/news24/South...e-of-disaster-was-declared-available-20200623

 

[bwana]

Dodging questions: Dlamini-Zuma does not have available the reasons a state of disaster was declared https://www.news24.com/news24/South...e-of-disaster-was-declared-available-20200623

Amazing, isn't it.

 

[bwana]

Over a 100 COVID positive students at a single EC school!!

204 now.

Damn - which school?

EDIT: nmd:

The Eastern Cape health department is considering converting Makaula Senior Secondary School into an isolation facility after 204 people there tested positive for Covid-19.

204 test positive for Covid-19 at Eastern Cape boarding school

The Eastern Cape health department is considering converting Makaula Senior Secondary School into an isolation facility after 204 people at the school tested positive for Covid-19.

www.heraldlive.co.za

 

[dualmeister]

Amazing, isn't it.

Nuts.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Damn, big spike deaths in WC today (provincial update) - 76 deaths.

 

[bwana]

Nuts.

She's got a few sets of those by now too.

 

[Temujin]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1275432583367704576

 

[FlashSA]

They had to make sure all the necessary tenders were tendered and all the BEEs were right.

You don't know the half of it. Tenderpreneurs are feeding flat out.

 

[dualmeister]

Quite sad.

‘Even though they are gone, they are still together’ - Daughter as mom, dad die hours apart of Covid-19 https://www.news24.com/news24/South...e-hours-apart-of-covid-19-20200623?isapp=true

 

[Paulsie]

4 ‘mass job loss’ scenarios for South Africa – and how they will hit government’s coronavirus support – BusinessTech

businesstech.co.za

1. Unemployment rate peaks at 41.4% and Covid-19 TERS benefits cost R48 billion

In this situation, the UIF becomes financially unsound as there is no insurance capital left and it is required to “borrow from future” by using 5% of accumulated credits.

Sufficient funds should be available to pay benefits on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis, it said.

In this scenario, it is possible that the fund could return to financial soundness in 10 years.

Scenario 1 seems to be the most optimistic, yet even then the UIF will not have sufficient funds available and will need to borrow.

 

[Geoff.D]

Quite sad.

‘Even though they are gone, they are still together’ - Daughter as mom, dad die hours apart of Covid-19 https://www.news24.com/news24/South...e-hours-apart-of-covid-19-20200623?isapp=true

Very sad for both such young parents to be taken by Covid 19.
Note that both ended up on ventilators!

 

[dualmeister]

Very sad for both such young parents to be taken by Covid 19.
Note that both ended up on ventilators!

Yeah seems to me standard procedure at some places

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Quite sad.

‘Even though they are gone, they are still together’ - Daughter as mom, dad die hours apart of Covid-19 https://www.news24.com/news24/South...e-hours-apart-of-covid-19-20200623?isapp=true

Wow, this is one of the saddest stories I've read about Covid-19. Heartbreaking.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1275469998455169025

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

 

[Temujin]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1275518788197330944

Doesn't matter who she hires, a turd is a turd, can only polish it so much

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1275518788197330944

Doesn't matter who she hires, a turd is a turd, can only polish it so much

Nah, unfortunately when you have access to top lawyers it is likely the judge will rule in your favour so I'm resigned to the fact that an appeal will be granted. He merely needs to show that another judge could come to a different conclusion with the facts presented.

 

[/dev/null]

Wow, covid still going on. Is the health system overwhelmed yet?

 

[zoozi]

Very sad for both such young parents to be taken by Covid 19.
Note that both ended up on ventilators!

God that story is just gut-wrenching, feel like kak after reading that.

I have a question. There must be many different methods of treatment going around depending on the hospital/doctor, with the science advancing all the time. I read about high-dose oxygen now being favoured over vents in WC; and of Dr Jaco Laubscher's promising treatment protocol.

Is it mostly at the hospital and doctor's discretion, or are the treatments more standardized in terms of a government protocol? Do government protocols have any bearing on private practices? Just makes me think how much a luck of the draw it might be when it comes to treatment.