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Hospitals may be discharging XDR-TB patients too soon - study

A shortage of beds may be forcing hospitals to discharge patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) before they are cured and a minority may be unwittingly infecting others, according to new research by Cape Town and Stellenbosch universities.
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Oh my goodness, the lady at my previous work was never locked up.
my mistake.

Still pose the question about why there are no lockdown if they are not kept until they are healthy.
 
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Mila said:
Oh my goodness, the lady at my previous work was never locked up.
my mistake.

Still pose the question about why there are no lockdown if they are not kept until they are healthy.
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I think detention may have changed in the past 10 years, not sure, but I do recall reading in our local paper about TB patients who had managed to bribe healthcare workers to allow them out to do their banking / shopping and putting the public at unnecessary risk. I think it was always reserved for unique cases - those who couldn't self-isolate or look after themselves or those with MDR/XDR TB. Lockdown was probably one of the reasons many didn't want to get tested in the first place.
 
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The increasing number of Covid-19 infections among workers in sectors providing essential services during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is cause for concern, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told a Parliamentary briefing on Monday.

Mkhize said changes in the virus outbreak are being observed on a daily basis. He said that currently social gatherings like funerals and densely populated areas like correctional facilities were where the bulk of the new infections were coming from.

www.iol.co.za

Infection rates among essential services workers a concern, says Mkhize

The increasing number of Covid-19 infections among workers in sectors providing essential services during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is cause for concern, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
www.iol.co.za www.iol.co.za

I am shocked. With Only 50 people allowed to go to funerals, and Only 15 passengers in a taxi, how is this possible?
 
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Leno said:
Covid-19: decisive action is the hallmark of South Africa’s early success against coronavirus




Has the 1:1000 ratio for active cases been mentioned before?
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A few lonely voices have. But the peanut gallery still has not understood the proffs presentation. And neither have many of the govt officials we are depending on to steer the SA Titanic through this crises. All they havey jumped on is what helps them turn the country into a communist police state.
 
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MiW said:
The increasing number of Covid-19 infections among workers in sectors providing essential services during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is cause for concern, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told a Parliamentary briefing on Monday.

Mkhize said changes in the virus outbreak are being observed on a daily basis. He said that currently social gatherings like funerals and densely populated areas like correctional facilities were where the bulk of the new infections were coming from.

www.iol.co.za

Infection rates among essential services workers a concern, says Mkhize

The increasing number of Covid-19 infections among workers in sectors providing essential services during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is cause for concern, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
www.iol.co.za www.iol.co.za

I am shocked. With Only 50 people allowed to go to funerals, and Only 15 passengers in a taxi, how is this possible?
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Read it carefully (anything by IOL).

The idea that essential service workers would be unaffected by the epidemic was a complete fantasy. The comic scenes of them wearing masks inappropriately only hints at this reality.

I stated previously that law enforcement have a licence (literally) to go anywhere, do anything, interact with everyone, and ignore precautions, and then go home afterwards. The consequences have become clear, with outbreaks in multiple locations.

We have the ridiculous situation where 90% of the population are self-isolating, while the virus is spreading amongst 1-5% who are essential workers. Is it any surprise to anyone other than the Minister?
 
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Geoff.D said:
Prof Karim was supposed to give a presentation on Tuesday, then postponed to Wednesday and then moved to today.
Now the Pres has taken the slot again? I would much rather listen to the Prof than the Pres.
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I would rather have decent, comprehensive and LIVE numbers with good granularity than listen to either of them.
 
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MiW said:
The increasing number of Covid-19 infections among workers in sectors providing essential services during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is cause for concern, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told a Parliamentary briefing on Monday.

Mkhize said changes in the virus outbreak are being observed on a daily basis. He said that currently social gatherings like funerals and densely populated areas like correctional facilities were where the bulk of the new infections were coming from.

www.iol.co.za

Infection rates among essential services workers a concern, says Mkhize

The increasing number of Covid-19 infections among workers in sectors providing essential services during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is cause for concern, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
www.iol.co.za www.iol.co.za

I am shocked. With Only 50 people allowed to go to funerals, and Only 15 passengers in a taxi, how is this possible?
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And yet you still allow funerals... But cannot get hot food that was already available at a lot of places and didn't show any increase in the infections, yet funerals do. Also no really prisoners who are not self isolating are spreading the infections? Really?
Also hospitals would be a vector that has an higher infection rate, they work with it and obviously it's not all hospitals seems to be mostly KZN ones again?
 
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Lupus said:
And yet you still allow funerals... But cannot get hot food that was already available at a lot of places and didn't show any increase in the infections, yet funerals do. Also no really prisoners who are not self isolating are spreading the infections? Really?
Also hospitals would be a vector that has an higher infection rate, they work with it and obviously it's not all hospitals seems to be mostly KZN ones again?
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Seems that everyone is government knows about the magic number 50 for funerals, it prevents diseases of any kind.
 
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Lupus said:
And yet you still allow funerals... But cannot get hot food that was already available at a lot of places and didn't show any increase in the infections, yet funerals do. Also no really prisoners who are not self isolating are spreading the infections? Really?
Also hospitals would be a vector that has an higher infection rate, they work with it and obviously it's not all hospitals seems to be mostly KZN ones again?
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Netcare hospitals especially.
 
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Chris_the_Brit said:
So Italy, one of the hardest hit countries, is allowing visiting of relatives and unrestricted outdoor exercise from May the 4th. Compare that with our ridiculous regulations which only visiting relatives and friends on level 1.
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Exercise isn't unrestricted, and you have to still wear masks and maintain social distancing when visiting relatives. Gyms and pools are not open, and parks will restrict the number of people in them. You also have a slightly extended boundary for exercise like jogging, cycling, and walking, but you still have restrictions.

Italy is also doing this because active cases vs hospital admissions vs deaths have dropped to a manageable level. The entire country was on lockdown, not specific regions.

news.sky.com

Coronavirus: Italy to ease lockdown as daily deaths drop to lowest since March

Italy's PM Giuseppe Conte lays out a long-awaited timetable of gradual measures that may offer some return to normality.
news.sky.com news.sky.com

Apart from the US (where states can make their own plans), we are probably the only country to have worked out a response plan that applies to specific municipal areas and provinces, where different lockdown measures can be applied.

If we had to allow people to visit relatives and friends, we would have a major problem in the townships with multiple outbreaks.

Mila said:
You don’t get locked up.
Its not 1920.
You get send home and told to self isolate until the medicine work.
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A crew member on my dad's fishing boat was diagnosed with TB during the closed season. Our local hospital locked him in their isolation ward for a month while he started treatment. TB patients with more serious strains get sent to TB hospitals which are more like prisons.

He died the next year in a regular ward, his lungs collapsed. He wasn't taking his medication regularly.
 
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