Matrics and Grade 7s could be back in school by May 6, other grades to be phased in – if lockdown ends April 30
By: illovuonline news team
17-04-202
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Pupils in grades 12 and seven could be the first to return to school.
Pupils in grades 12 and seven will be the first to return to school on May 6 if President Cyril Ramaphosa lifts the lockdown at the end of the month, according to a draft proposal.
This is according to proposals contained in the department of basic education’s ”draft post Covid-19 lockdown recovery plan” which was discussed with teacher unions and governing body associations.
According to the document, two grades will be phased in at a time, starting from May 6.
These are the tentative dates for pupils to return to school:
* Grades 12 and 7: May 6;
* Grades 11 and 6: May 20;
* Grades 10 and 5: June 3;
*Grades 9 and 4: June 17;
*Grades 8 and 3: July 1;
*Grades 2 and 1: July 8; and
*Grade R: July 15.
The document stated that the phased in approach ”will be closely managed and monitored” and that the next two grades will be brought in based on how the school is coping with the management of the number of pupils, the space and the hygienic requirements.
But it stated that schooling will only resume after the department of health has given the green light that it is safe to resume schooling.
”Given the high risk associated with large gatherings, the DBE is considering a phased-in approach. The most critical grades will be brought in first to start the primary and secondary schools, while the remaining learners are retained at home, and they are brought in on an incremental basis,” the document stated.
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The number of inmates at the East London Correctional Services Centre who have tested positive for Covid-19 has shot up to 53.
By: illovuonline news team
17-04-2020
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This is a sudden change of events from Sunday, where the correctional services department said 23 officials and three inmates had tested positive for the deadly virus at the facility.
SA records 2605 confirmed Covid-19 cases
Now, a total of 78 individuals including inmates and officials have been infected.
On Tuesday, correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumamlo says: “We can confirm that positive [Covid-19] cases have increased.
“We are now talking about 53 inmates – all of them at the East London correctional facility. We then have in all 25 officials, this will be 23 at East London and one official at St Albans [prison in Port Elizabeth] and one at our head office in Pretoria.”
He says all the 78 people have been isolated.
“All those who have tested positive are currently in isolation, here I am talking about officials and inmates.”
He adds that the officials are housed in guest houses within the correctional services facilities.
“That’s where the healthcare team is monitoring them.”
For inmates, he adds, the department has identified cells reserved for quarantine and isolation purposes.
“That’s the method that we are utilising,” he says adding that they are also under the eye of healthcare workers.
How does isolation in a prison context look?
He replies: “We embarked on a process of procuring park homes, which we are then using for isolation purposes.”
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Employee at PE Woolworths Food store tests positive for Covid-19
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16-04-2020
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An employee at a Port Elizabeth Woolworths Food has tested positive for Covid-19
Woolworths spokesperson Silindile Gumede said in a statement the staff member, from the store along Buffelsfontein Road, was recovering in isolation.
“Our greatest priority is the health and safety of our people and as a precautionary measure, in line with our procedures for these type of incidents, our Access Park store was closed for extensive deep cleaning, and all our people who were in direct contact with the employee have been placed in self-quarantine for 14 days,” Gumede said.
“This procedure is guided by the approach of Department of Health and National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). Their health is being monitored by our specialist health services provider.
“Should any individuals develop any symptoms during this period, our Woolworths Covid-19 call centre will make all the necessary arrangements for testing. The deep cleaning procedure ensures that the store is safe for our people and our customers to work and shop.”
Gumede said the store had reopened for trade.
“The NICD will also follow their own tracking process to identify anybody else who is required to take precautionary measures and they will contact them directly.”
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Covid-19: Why some recovered patients may test positive again
By: illovuonline news team
16-04-2020
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Doctors suspect the virus could have re-activated itself and manifested
The researcher said Covid-19 needs specific drug to treat it properly.
Some people who had won the fight and recovered from the deadly Covid-19 disease are increasingly testing positive for the virus again, a short while after being released from hospital.
In February, doctors in Wuhan, China, the apparent source of the coronavirus pandemic said, up to 10 per cent of recovered coronavirus patients they had worked on and recovered from the virus had tested positive again after they were discharged from the hospital.
On April 6, at least 91 people in South Korea tested positive again, weeks after being released from hospital.
On Monday, Yonhap, a government-funded news agency in South Korea, reported that one of the patients who had tested positive for the second time died.
Another study in China estimated the number of people testing positive after being released from quarantine at around 10 per cent.
Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, a clinical immunologist and director of Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), says re-infection could have occurred in the 91 patients.
“With our experience of influenza, if the virus mutates a bit, immune response you had may not work well and re-infection may occur,” he said.
The virus research scientist said the other reason why those people tested positive again could be because their immunity went low.
“The other way could be that the immune response has just come down,” the scientist said.
The professor, however, said it is not a common occurrence and that research is being done to find the exact cause.
Dr Misaki Wayengera, a researcher who is part of the technical advisory committee on Covid-19 at Ministry of Health, said the treatment being given to victims could be explanatory to re-infection.
In regards to this, he said the virus could have simply re-activated itself and manifested.
“The main question should be that is this a re-infection or a virus that has re-occurred?” he said.
“The treatment being used are not very specific as against viral infections. Drugs being used such as hydroxychloroquine has some antiviral property but it is not sufficient. Some of these viruses need combination of drugs like how it is done for HIV,” explained the expert.
Dr Wayengera who is also leading the team developing testing kits in Uganda, said several trials on drugs against viruses that have been conducted are not showing excellent results.
“Several trials of drugs related to anti-retroviral (ARV) have been done but the outcome were not very good. The benefits were not demonstrated very well,” he added.
The researcher said Covid-19 needs specific drug to treat it properly.
“You cannot use antiviral and expect it to work everywhere. The mechanism with which the covid-19 infects is quite different from HIV,” Dr Wayengera added.
Dr Ekwaro Obuku, the former president of Uganda Medical Association, said re-infection with Covid-19 is possible.
“It is called “super-infection”. This phenomenon as well happens with HIV-1, where a person living with HIV can be re-infected with another strain altogether,” he said.
“And if this strain is the resistant type then the HIV medicines the person is taking will not work as well as before,” Dr Obuku added.
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Coronavirus: Cardi B calls for change amid Covid-19 pandemic
By: illovuonline news team
16-04-2020
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American rapper Cardi B has taken to her social media page to call for change in the US –
Cardi B said that the American government is not taking the coronavirus pandemic as seriously as they should – The rapper told her US followers to demand the change that is needed in their country.
American rapper Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B, has taken to her social media page to call for change in her country, the United States.
The coronavirus pandemic has seen celebrities over the world trying to keep their fans and followers entertained as they stay locked down in their various communities. Some celebrities have hosted live video chats where they interact with their fans while others have organised live concerts for their followers.
Cardi B is one of these celebrities keeping her fans entertained during this period of global crisis. But beyond entertaining her fans, the rapper is also educating social media users about the state of things in the United States.
She organised an Instagram live chat and she was joined by American senator Bernie Sanders. Cardi B and the senator discussed different topics, including the coronavirus.
While in discussion with the senator, the rapper stated that the American government is not doing right by its citizens and instead of them apologising and doing better, they haven’t done anything.
She compared the reaction of the government during the time of ebola and this period of coronavirus. The mother of one said that she feels that America has put trade before its citizens. The rapper told her followers to join her in calling for the change that is needed in the country.
Cardi B told said that she wants to keep them aware of what is happening in America while entertaining them at the same time. She wrote on Instagram: “I just want to bring awareness to what’s going on in our country and around the world. I want to make sure all my followers are aware and make a change! We have the power to make a change!”
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Don’t panic: This is what a voluntary lockdown until September means
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16-04-2020
Prof Salim Abdool Karim
A voluntary partial Covid-19 lockdown may be in place in SA until at least September, as part of the ongoing measures to protect the most vulnerable, with the elderly requiring particular care.
The government also has plans to build field hospitals for triage processes, which are used in emergency health care programmes to decide what measure of treatment to provide to people who arrive at medical facilities.
One of the country’s top epidemiologists, who chairs the ministerial advisory group on Covid-19, Prof Salim Abdool Karim, detailed the measures in a nationally televised presentation on Monday night.
He said protecting the elderly was among a raft of measures which needed to be put in place — “preferably those above 60 or 65 because mortality is still higher in that group but above 70, we’re really concerned”.
Government was considering a “voluntary partial lockdown” until September “when we think most of the wave of this epidemic will be over”.
‘SA can’t escape the worst of this epidemic’: Prof Salim Abdool Karim
Prominent epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, who is advising government’s response to Covid-19, said on Monday night that while SA had …
“If we can offer something to protect our elderly — and especially those with other conditions, like diabetes, heart disease, lung disease — those individuals can be provided with protected self-quarantine and self-isolation.
“Our children will go to school — when they go home, they can’t play with granny or grandpa because they will pose a risk to transmit the virus to their grandparents.
Karim stressed the end of September was just a target in government’s planning as there was no way of knowing that the epidemic would be over by then.
He said the interventions introduced by the government had slowed the viral spread and the country had gained some time, but the virus would still have a huge negative impact on the population’s health.
“As much as we have succeeded in stemming the flow of this virus in our communities, keeping the transmission at reasonably low levels so far and having the success that no-one else has achieved, we cannot escape this epidemic — unless SA has some protective factor, let’s call it a mojo, (unless) we have a mojo that protects us, that is not present anywhere else in the world.
“Our population is at high risk because all of us have no immunity to this virus.”
Nonetheless, the delay was vital because there simply are not enough hospital beds across the country to accommodate the thousands of people who will need them if the numbers increase rapidly.
“We simply cannot provide care to so many people at one time,” he said.
“What we would hope for is that the number of new cases will steadily decline and disappear.
“I’m sorry to tell you that’s very unlikely. The more likely scenario is that once we end the lockdown, and we’re going to have to end it at some stage, as soon as the opportunity arises for this virus again, we will see the exponential curve again.”
Prof Karim says future interventions the government needs to address include:
Identifying hotspots where the virus has broken out. “We need to find out where the clusters of infection are occurring, and we need to slow it down. We need to be very careful that every hotspot that emerges, we can deal with it.”
Medical care has to be ready when patients start arriving, including having triage facilities in field hospitals outside the established facilities — “we need to hold the pressure off the main hospitals who are treating the seriously ill patients” to avoid them becoming overwhelmed.
Dealing with the challenges of bereavement, mental health and social consequences of death and dying.
Delaying the peak impact on hospitals also buys time to find faster testing abilities and secure a vaccine.
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Thando spreads her love, helping more than 500 homeless people during lockdown.
By illovuonline news team
16-04-2020
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Former 5FM presenter and actress Thando Thabethe has redirected her energy
from her battle with her former employer to helping more than 500 homeless people during the nationwide lockdown.
Alongside Booth Fest Foundation, Thabooty, as she is popularly known, sprung into action to tackle an age-old challenge.
“This is nothing new in Africa and, with the focus all being on Covid-19, we decided to remember the basics that people may not have,” she said.
Thabethe has had extra time on her hands since her recent resignation from 5FM and the halt of Mzansi Magic drama series Housekeepers.
“The idea is to feed as many people as possible,” Thabethe explained.
“So far we have managed to do about 500 people. We have, however, realised that creating food packs would last longer for each family and perhaps keep them going past lockdown.”
Thabethe also confirmed that she was working on a podcast for TV and radio, set to launch on April 10 with a no-holds-barred interview with Rami “T-Gom” Chuene, a talented actress who also speaks out on the rights of performing artists.
“I have a podcast TV&R which was meant to launch in March but had to be moved forward. We are looking at possibly doing a lockdown edition,” said Thabethe, who also starred in
Generations: The Legacy.
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Tragedy strikes as Baby Cele’s cousin shoots mom, wife and then himself
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16-04-2020
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Baby Cele’s family is dealing with a situation no family would ever want to find themselves in –
The actress’ cousin committed suicide after shooting dead his mom and wounding his wife – In light of the situation, Baby has urged for more awareness around depression in the community.
The actress’ cousin, Mbuso Cele, passed away from suicide after shooting dead his mother and wounding his estranged wife.
The incident happened at Umlazi K Section this past Sunday at around 1pm. Baby revealed that 37-year-old Mbuso had suffered from depression for a long time.
Mbuso’s sister, 47-year-old Nombuso, said her brother and his wife arrived at his mother’s home on Sunday and requested to speak with her. Mbuso has allegedly been estranged from his wife, 35-year-old Zanele, since 2018.
He had also left his car salesman job due to depression. Mbuso was apparently also angry that his wife had a better relationship with his mother than with him.
Mbuso shot his mother and his wife in full view of neighbours after they refused to go to his car with him. Kwazulu Natal police spokeswoman Captain Nqobile Gwala said charges of murder and attempted murder were being investigated by police. “It’s alleged that on 12 April at 1pm at Umlazi K section, a known suspect fatally shot his 72-year-old mother and wounded his wife after an argument,” the captain said.
“His mother was declared dead at the scene while the suspect’s wife was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.” She said on Monday at 3am the body of a 37-year-old suspect was found in a locked vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head in the Bhekulwandle area. A firearm was found next to Mbuso’s body.
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Tiger Brands closes Durban bakery after employees test positive
By: illovuonline news team
16-04-202
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Cape Town – Tiger Brands has temporarily closed its Durban bakery after some of its staff members tested positive for Covid-19.
The health and safety of all our employees remains our number one priority, Tiger Brands said on Wednesday. Alternative arrangements will be made to supply its Durban customer base.
“Tiger Brands confirms that it will temporarily close its Durban bakery as a precautionary measure after some staff members tested positive for Covid-19,” it said in a statement.
“The company has taken the decision in line with best practice protocols and in the interest of the health and safety of all its employees at the bakery, which is its biggest priority.
“The company has put measures in place to support all staff while they undergo all Covid-19 testing. All protocols and regulatory requirements as mandated by the DOH (Department of Health) and the NICD have been followed.
“Alternative arrangements will be made to supply its Durban customer base from the company’s other facilities.”
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Tiger Brands to temporarily close its Durban Bakery after some staff test positive for Covid-19.
The health and safety of all our employees remains our number one priority.
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