Barack Obama Criticizes Trump’s Coronavirus Response, Ahmaud Arbery Injustice in HBCU Grad Speech
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Former President Barack Obama made a brief appearance during the “Show Me Your Walk HBCU Edition” virtual graduation ceremony, criticizing the country’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Though Obama doesn’t mention President Trump by name, he alludes to him and the “folks in charge.”
“More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge,” he said. “If the world is going to get better, it’s going to be up to you.”
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The former president joined the commencement speech for students graduating from historically black colleges and universities near the end of the virtual ceremony. He also discussed how the black community is more severely impacted by coronavirus around the country.
“A disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country. We see it in the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on our communities,” he said.
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Obama then referenced the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man who was killed while jogging on the street in Georgia. The two white men who attacked him were arrested last week after a video of his death went viral, though it occurred in late February.
“Just as we see it when a black man goes for a jog and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he doesn’t submit to their questioning. Injustice like this isn’t new,” he said.
Despite the students’ canceled in-person graduation, they were told they can still change the world.
“No generation has been better positioned to be warriors for justice and remake the world,” he said. “Your participation in this democracy, your courage to stand up for what’s right, your willingness to forge coalitions, these actions will speak volumes. And if you’re inactive, that will also speak volumes.”
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The commencement speech was hosted by Kevin Hart and featured appearances by Steve Harvey, Chris Paul, Debbie Allen, Vivica Fox, Anthony Hamilton, Wyclef Jean, Omari Hardwick and Doug E. Fresh.
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Obama will help deliver another commencement speech later on Saturday at the Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 event hosted by the LeBron James Foundation, Entertain Industry Foundation and XQ Institute. The virtual ceremony will include appearances by Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, Malala Yousafzai, the Jonas Brothers, Yara Shahidi, Pharrell Williams, Megan Papinoe, Lena Waithe, Bad Bunny, Ben Platt, H.E.R. and more.
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Cannabis Might Block COVID-19 Infection, Study Shows
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17-05-2020
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Smoking weed won’t make you coronavirus-proof, but these researchers might be onto something.
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While smoking weed definitely won’t make you coronavirus-proof, Canadian scientists at the University of Lethbridge have some promising results that might be counted as preliminary evidence that cannabis may block COVID-19 infection.
The study’s aim was to find ways to hinder the COVID-19 from finding a host in the lungs, intestines, and oral cavity.
The researchers have studied over 400 cannabis strains, and now, they are concentrating on about a dozen they say have the most potential to help prevent the virus.
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In order to conduct to study, the researchers developed over 400 new cannabis Sativa lines and extracts. The end-strains were high in anti-inflammatory cannabinoid cannabidiol(CBD) since the compound has been proposed to have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.
By using artificial human 3-D tissue models, they simulated and mapped out how each strain may impact COVID-19 infections in the human oral, airway, and intestinal tissues. Particularly, they monitored each strain’s ability to modulate ACE2 levels, an enzyme previously linked to COVID-19 infection.
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The lead researcher, biological scientist Dr. Igor Kovalchuk stated some strains showed promising results in ensuring less fertile ground for the virus to take root.
Some reduced the virus receptors by 73%
According to Kovalchuk, “A number of them have reduced the number of these (virus) receptors by 73 percent, the chance of it getting in is much lower. If they can reduce the number of receptors, there’s much less chance of getting infected.”
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Moreover, the researchers were able to identify 13 CBD extracts that are able to change ACE2 levels. The data suggestedthat some strains were also able to down-regulate serine protease TMPRSS2, which is another protein critical for COVID-19 to enter host cells and spread throughout the body.
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So yes, while the findings are promising they are yet to be peer-reviewed. The results cannot be taken as conclusive evidence of cannabis’s ability to treat the virus since the researchers haven’t been able to identify what the ideal ratio is of THC to CBD, or even if the active ingredient is CBD or some other component or combination.
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If peer-reviewed and more research is done on the subject, the study could be actually practiced in the form of mouth wash, gargle, inhalants, or gel caps, according to Kovalchuk.
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Black Child Magic: Rihanna is crowned Britain’s wealthiest female musician
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17-05-2020
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Rihanna was a tiny child when she first walked in on her father smoking crack. The family struggled with poverty during her childhood in Barbados; her home life was marred by violent arguments and her father’s crippling drug and alcohol addictions. At school though, her teachers recorded that she was sure of herself, intelligent and “very observant of her environment”. By the time she was 10, Rihanna had become a carer to her two younger brothers while her mother worked to support them. Her parents later divorced.
If humble, troubled beginnings go some way to explain the drive of the most successful stars, then Rihanna makes a bold claim to be among the biggest. At 32, she enters the Sunday Times Rich list as Britain’s wealthiest female musician.
Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the pop megastar-turned-businesswoman has a fortune estimated at £468m. Eligible for inclusion in the newspaper’s annual list since she moved to London over a year ago, Rihanna, who enters the musicians’ category at No 3 after Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paul McCartney, is now richer than Mick Jagger and Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Adele. And, to theconsternation of her fans, she hasn’t even released an album since 2016. She last did a concert tour the same year.
Her rise to the top of Britain’s elite list appears to have even shocked Robert Watts, who compiles it. “She somewhat caught us by surprise,” he told the BBC. “Very few people knew she was living in the UK until last summer; now she’s well placed to be the first musician to reach billionaire status in the UK.”
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Jay-Z and Rihanna, right, in New York in 2005, the year she signed her first record deal with him at Def Jam.
Rihanna was just 17 when her first single, Pon De Replay, became an unexpected global smash hit. (Her UK label was paying such little attention to its Caribbean signing at the time, it didn’t even bother spelling her name right on their first ever run of “Rhianna” CDs).
At 22, she became the only female artist in the history of the US Billboard chart to score four No 1 singles in a calendar year. By 24, she had won the record as the biggest-selling digital artist of all time, and at 31, Rihanna became the first black woman to run a luxury fashion house. Backed by luxury brand Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey (LVMH), her fashion brand has been the key to building her staggering wealth. First, with the industry-disrupting launch of Fenty Beauty in 2017, the first cosmetics line to cater for up to 40 skintones, then, withSavage x Fenty, a lingerie line for all sizes.
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The success of Rihanna’s fashion brand Fenty has largely fuelled her rise to the top of the rich list. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Bergdorf Goodman
It’s a long way from the parish of St Michael, in the south west of Barbados, where Rihanna was born. Her Guyanese mother was an immigrant and her father came from mixed-race heritage, black and white. “The Guyanese are like the Mexicans of Barbados,” she told British Vogue last month. “That’s why I really relate and empathise with Latino people who are discriminated against in America.”
Rihanna spent her early teenage years training as an army cadet. When she was 14, she formed the girl group Contrast with her friends. That summer, in 2003, the group auditioned for US music producer Evan Richards, who immediately dumped the other girls and set about making Rihanna a solo star. A meeting was arranged with Jay-Z at Def Jam records – he signed her on the spot.
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In 2007, at 19 and with three albums already under her belt, Rihanna told theObserver: “They locked me into the office – til 3am. Then Jay-Z said: ‘There’s only two ways out: out the door after you sign this deal or through this window.’” Naively, perhaps, she was thrilled by the story. “We were on the 29th floor,” she said. “[It was] very flattering.” Later, she said she felt stifled by the contract she signed so young, which saw her churn out seven hit albums in seven years.
But the release of 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad marked a creative turning point and saw Rihanna drop her label-mandated image which she deemed “girlie and boring” to experiment with “different, unexpected and edgy” looks. She moved on from reggae-flavoured dancehall and delivered Umbrella, a track that earned her the first of nine Grammys and spent 71 weeks in the UK charts, staying at No 1 for 10 of them.
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“She’s now got enough incredible singles to fill five greatest hits albums, and it’s amazing she’s never released one,” says Michael Cragg, music journalist and editor of BEAT magazine. “She’s got one great album – Anti – but like Madonna, she’s made so many good singles it doesn’t matter.” Her ninth album is allegedly imminent, but then it has been for the last year.
Rihanna and her then boyfriend Chris Brown on stage in 2008, the year they made their relationship public. The following year Brown, 19, was charged with assaulting her.
While, professionally, Rihanna is at her peak, she has faced hardship in her private life. A year after going public about her relationship with RnB singer Chris Brown, photos of her battered face – swollen and bruised – were leaked to the press. Brown had beaten her after an argument in the car home from an awards ceremony. The couple broke up, but reconciled several times over the next four years.
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In a 2009 US television interview with Diane Sawyer, Rihanna said that Brown was her “first big love”. She had been warned that her reconciliation with him would set a bad example for young girls. “I realise that my selfish decision for love could result in some getting killed,” she said. “Even if Chris never hit me again, who’s to say that [their abusers] won’t kill these girls?” In 2013, back again with Brown, she told Rolling Stone, she didn’t care what people thought : “I decided it was important for me to be happy … I wasn’t going to let anyone’s opinion get in the way of that.” Months later they broke up again.
While music has been the backbone to her creative success, her commercial skill goes far beyond singing songs. Designers including Tom Ford and Alexander Wang have been quick to heap praise on her, marking out her daring and constant reinvention. “She’s an amplified version of what a lot of girls want to look like, but she’s always one step ahead of the game,” designer Peter Dundas told British Vogue.
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Critics largely agree it’s a talent that applies to her songs, too. The New Yorker, noting that her limited vocal range has never been the draw, declared in 2016 that her “real art” was “her accessible brand of casual, forward-thinking cool”. Put plainly, Rihanna excels at producing influential pop anthems that reverberate from school discos to underground clubs.
Rihanna is notorious for playing against pop machine’s rules and has cultivated a brand – the “Bad Gal Riri” of her Instagram handle – that is unapologetically sexual. She has her critics: Annie Lennox accused her of peddling “pornographic” music videos, and Mail on Sunday columnist Liz Jones called her “toxic” and “poisonous”.
“Her fans lap it up,” says Cragg. “Rihanna can be messy, get drunk, have spats on Twitter, sit on the shoulders of her bodyguard at Coachella rolling a blunt, and it’s part of her charm.
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“She’s still got a real edge and you can’t market that or fabricate it in any way. She genuinely has to have really great taste to still be so relevant at this point in her career.”
By all accounts, Rihanna is supremely slick at what she does – with little sign that she’s letting up.
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“I was always trying to figure out ‘how can I change the world? What could I do?’” she told the Observer in 2007. “I think the American way is a fantasy … Their priorities are fancy cars and bling. In Barbados, it’s about having fun.”
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Madagascar’s Herbal remedy undergoes testing in Germany
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17-05-2020
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Madagascar has so far reported 238 Covid-19 cases with no deaths and 112 recoveries. Their president attributes this to a Madagascan herbal remedy.
There is no proof yet that the herbal tonic controversially touted by Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina cures Covid-19, but the World Health Organisation said it had initiated steps to test it.
Also Scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam are among a group of researchers from Germany and Denmark collaborating with the US company ArtemiLife to explore whether the Artemisia plant can be used against the novel coronavirus.
“It is the primary examination where researchers are exploring the capacity of these plant substances regarding COVID-19,” said the leader of the investigation, Peter Seeberger.
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The cell study will utilize test separates from the Artemisia annua plant, otherwise called sweet wormwood, just as subordinates confined from the plant, for example, artemisinin.
An Artemisia compound has for some time been utilized as a treatment for malaria.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina touted a potion containing an Artemisia extract and other herbs as a “miracle cure” for the coronavirus.
He has claimed that the product could cure a patient within 10 days, and that 20 people in his country have been “cured”
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“No one will stop us from moving forward. Not a country, not an organisation,” he told France24’s Marc Perelman and RFI’s Christophe Boisbouvier.
“What if this remedy had been discovered by a European country, instead of Madagascar. Would people doubt it so much? I don’t think so,” he said. “What is the problem with Covid-Organics, really? Could it be that this product comes from Africa? Could it be that it’s not okay for a country like Madagascar, which is the 63rd-poorest country in the world… to have come up with (this formula) that can help save the world?” Rajoelina said.
Artemisia was imported to Madagascar from China during the 1970s and has antimalarial properties. It has likewise been broadly utilized in South Africa for illnesses like coughs, colds, fever, loss of appetite, colic, headache, earache, intestinal worms and malaria. It’s known as wildeals in Afrikaans, umhlonyane in isiXhosa and isiZulu, and lengana in Setswana.
Media in Africa have plugged the drink’s potential, and several African countries have placed orders for the herbal tonic, sold under the name COVID Organics.
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The World Health Organization, however, warns on its website that there is “no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 can be prevented or treated with products made from Artemisia-based plant material.”
The researchers anticipate results before the finish of May at the most recent. If Artemisia is found to be effective in these trials, further tests including clinical studies on humans, would still need to take place.
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Fans ‘force’ Nasty C’s girl to explain why she went to A-Reece concert
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17-05-2020
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Sammie and Nasty C have been together since high school.
A video of Nasty C’s girlfriend Sammie jamming to A-Reece’s music recently caused chaos on Twitter streets as Nasty’s loyal fans felt Sammie has no “right” to enjoy music made by a man who is her boyfriend’s nemesis.
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In the video that dominated the timeline earlier this week, Sammie can be seen vibing to A-Reece’s hit track Paradise while the muso performs live in the background.
A fan from #TeamAreece decided the video was great ammunition to use against #TeamNastyC fans.
“If Nasty C girl can vibe like that to Reece music then who are Nasty C’s fans?” the video was captioned.
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Sammie took to her Instagram stories to set the record straight.
“People don’t feel comfortable with me listening to other rappers’ music or me liking their music or me being present at their f***** show… People just have problems okay,” she said.
“But it’s fine. It’s okay, I will listen to my rapper’s music and only my rapper’s music. And it’s fine. I won’t listen to other rappers or go to their shows. It’s fine, I won’t listen to their music, or download their music. I won’t follow them on Instagram or like their tweets. I won’t even see their names on Twitter because I will block their names. Because oh my gosh, my phone had this person’s name, God f***** orbid,” she said sarcastically.
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Sammie, who is Nasty C’s long time girlfriend, also admitted she felt the world knew way too much about her relationship with her rapper bae.
And Nasty C having rapped about cheating on her didn’t make things any easier.
Sammie opened up about how she was most annoyed by the people who told her she should have expected Nasty C to cheat because he’s a rapper, and that’s apparently what “rappers do”.
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51 Eastern Cape medical staff test positive as third health worker dies
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17-05-2020
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The nurse was admitted to Cecilia Makiwane Hospital’s intensive care unit this week after being referred by Grey Hospital.
A nurse died at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in East London on Friday morning, bringing to three the number of health workers who have succumbed to Covid-19 in the Eastern Cape.
It is understood that the nurse worked at Gateway clinic based at Grey Hospital in King William’s Town. She was not employed by the provincial health department but by an NGO.
A total of 51 workers in the province have tested positive for Covid-19 in the province.
Provincial health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo confirmed the nurse’s death.
“Some of the infected [health workers] are linked to funerals,” Kupelo said.
The nurse was admitted to Cecilia Makiwane Hospital’s intensive care unit this week after being referred by Grey Hospital.
A nurse at Grey Hospital who spoke to SowetanLIVE sister publication DispatchLIVE on condition of anonymity said medical personnel were scared after receiving word of the death.
“The workers are just scared. You know we have issues with protective gear that is scarce. We are not sure how we are going to deal with this. Every nurse is reluctant to come to work,” the nurse said.
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“Grey Hospital is like a death trap. How many others are positive?”
Two nurses, in Port Elizabeth and Mthatha respectively, have also lost their lives to Covid-19.
Department of correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo also confirmed to that a nurse at the East London Correctional Centre had tested positive for the virus.
“We appeal to the paper not to reveal the identity of the nurse who tested positive due to the stigma we are already subjected to by the public and business owners,” Nxumalo said.
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“In order to avail immediate expertise in the management of infections, prevention and control measures, the department has appointed a medical advisory panel and an additional 393 nursing personnel.
“This measure is also aimed at strengthening the capacity of the department in dealing with Covid-19, particularly in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape.”
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East London-based cardiologist Dr David Kettles said it would be a “horrendous tragedy” to see more of those on the frontline dying because they did not have personal protective equipment [PPE].
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“In medicine we understand that we face a certain degree of risk, but we must make very certain as a country that nurses are not dying unnecessarily,” Kettles said. “In other words, they do not die because they haven’t been provided with the necessary [personal] protective equipment.
“For me, the death of any health care provider, even the potter or the guy who is cleaning, every single person on the frontline, is a tragedy, because they are dying in the course of helping other people.
“As governments and communities we need to make sure that their deaths are not caused by our lack of procurement of the needed supplies.”
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Kettles said private hospitals were trying their best to protect employees.
“We are well cared for. I haven’t been exposed to PPE situations in the state hospitals, even though I do work at Frere [Hospital] occasionally. This thing is tough and is hurting everybody and we are under a lot of pressure as medical practitioners, but at St Dominic’s [where he works] we have all we need.”
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As the Covid-19 infections are expected to peak during winter, Kettle said people should brace themselves.
“We have had a lot of time to prepare [for the peak of the coronavirus infections] and I would think that has brought about a lot of change,” he said.
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“In our hospital, we’ve been able to see how the time has allowed us to adapt our plans for admissions, trying to keep non-Covid-19 people separate from Covid-19 [positive] people. So the time has been very useful.”
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Crowds at Wuhan clinics fear coronavirus testing could rekindle disease
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17-05-2020
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People wearing face masks wait in line to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus on a street in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on May 16, 2020. Nervous residents of China’s pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queued up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus on May 14 after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign.
As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the test centres expressed concern on Saturday that the very act of getting tested could expose them to the coronavirus.
Safety has become a hot topic on social media groups among the 11 million residents of Wuhan, people told Reuters as they converged on open-air test sites at clinics and other facilities. Many said, though, that they support the voluntary campaign.
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Wuhan health authorities sprang back into action after confirming last weekend the central Chinese city’s first cluster of new infections since it was released from virtual lockdown on April 8.
The new cases – all of them people who had previously shown no symptoms of the disease – spurred Wuhan authorities to launch a citywide search for asymptomatic carriers of the virus, aiming to gauge the level of COVID-19 risk.
Although Wuhan’s cinemas and banquet halls remain shut to curb large gatherings, the testing requires people to wait in long, sometimes messy, queues.
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“Some people have expressed worry in the (social media) groups about the tests, which require people to cluster, and whether there’s any infection risk,” said one Wuhan resident who asked not to be named.
“But others rebutted those worries, saying such comments are not supportive of the government.”
The unprecedented scale of testing indicates the official level of concern, some experts say. Others say it is an extremely costly exercise and question its effectiveness.
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At a testing kiosk set up at the side of a busy road in Jianghan district in central Wuhan, a volunteer was patrolling and spraying disinfectant at a long line of people.
Many people observed social distancing, such as queuing 1 metre apart, and there were signs to remind them. But just as many did not. In some cases, volunteer workers were not insisting that they comply.
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At another open-air testing kiosk, where throat swabs were taken, yellow and black stickers on the ground kept people from converging. But at the back of the long queue, about 40 people gathered with no guidance from officials or volunteers.
At a third site, a woman who had just reached the front of the queue quizzed medical workers on whether they had changed their gloves between each test. When they said they disinfected their gloves but did not switch them, she said she no longer wanted to take the test.
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Residents said the authorities have not told them when they would get the results of their tests.
To cope with the surge in work, more Wuhan hospitals have been asked to set up testing points, and other institutions have been roped in to help process tests, said a doctor involved in the exercise who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
“We are now working 24 hours a day,” he said. “There is a lot of pressure.”
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China has confirmed 82,941 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday and 4,633 deaths. The government does not include people found to be asymptomatic carriers of the virus in its tally and does not publish a cumulative number of asymptomatic cases.
National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng told reporters 194 asymptomatic carriers were confirmed in the first half of May, down 62% from the second half of April.
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China to reform disease prevention system after Covid-19 exposes weaknesses
China will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavirus outbreak, a senior health official said …
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China reports first coronavirus case in Wuhan since April 3 among 14 new infections
China’s National Health Commission reported 14 new confirmed coronavirus cases on May 9, the highest number since April 28.
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Here’s when South African students will return to university
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16-05-2020
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The Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology has outlined its preliminary plans to save the 2020 academic year, while still balancing the safety of students.
Government placed all post-school education institutions on early recess from 15 March after President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the coronavirus pandemic a national disaster.
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Presenting to parliament on Thursday (14 May) the department indicated that the academic year was highly dependent on the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic, with plans to end the year anywhere between January and April 2021.
To accommodate this, from 1 June all institutions to be offering forms of remote multi-modal flexible teaching and learning, supported by approved resourced plans.
It added that it plans to allow a number of students back in a phased approach based on the level of the lockdown:
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Level 4 – Strictly controlled phased-in return of final-year undergraduate students in programmes requiring clinical training, beginning with MBChB (medical) students from 11 May 2020;
Level 3 and Level 2 – Further phasing in of groups of students (undergraduate and postgraduate) based on national criteria to ensure controlled return, social distancing and other protocols to support student and staff health and safety. The final decision for return of students in these categories will only take place once the National Command Council have taken into account all necessary health and other considerations;
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Level 1 – Full return of all groups of students with social distancing and health protocols still in place. This includes 27 weeks of contact teaching planned to ensure effective completion of the academic year and a fair chance of success for all students.
The department noted that a similar approach will be followed for TVET colleges and other higher education institutions, with no student allowed to return under level 4 restrictions (before the start of June).
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Medical students
The department presentation comes after minister Blade Nzimande issued a new directive which will enable some medical students to return to university to complete their studies.
The directive, which was published on Wednesday (13 May), permits the recommencement of the academic year for final year medical students at South African public universities with effect from 11 May 2020.
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It also allows for the once-off travel of final year medical students studying at public higher education institutions to travel from their homes to the university campus where they are registered for study during the period 8 -31 May 2020
Wits University said that the directive will require a limited opening of the Wits Junction Residence Complex and the Faculty of Health Sciences building, as well as the clinical training platform in various hospitals.
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“The University has prepared for the return of 314 medical students in their final year of the MBBCh and GEMP programmes. 91 students from this group will be housed in the Wits Junction on a self-catering basis.
“An additional 142 medical students on the Mandela Castro programme will also be returning to continue their clinical training in hospitals. These students will be housed, as usual, in the Witwaters Building and at various hospitals.”
The university said that it has also introduced a number of health and safety measures to protect staff and students.
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16-05-2020
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South African musicians, Viggy and Virginia Qwabe, better known as the Qwabe twins, took to social media to show off their new ride, a luxury BMW sedan.
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Mzansi loved the new ride and congratulated the two sisters on their new car. However, some were sceptical and claimed that the vehicle was not their theirs but actually belonged to producer DJ Tira and his AfroTainmentSA Studio.
However, the Qwabe twins who took time to respond to questions dispelled the notion and said that the car actually belonged to them and was owned by them.
Some other fans wondered whether the twins would share the same vehicle or whether they were going to buy another vehicle. Responding to this, Viggy and Virginia said that they did not need two separate vehicles and were content with the single vehicle they bought because they always do everything together.
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Said the Qwabe twins,
Owned by us #Qtwins ♡ under us
Why buy two cars? When we do everything together? Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes we only needed one nje.
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We don’t need two cars ♡
We do every single thing together
We share everything ❤❤
So buying two wouldn’t have been wise on our side cause the other
Wouldnt have been used.
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The two musicians also thanked DJ Tira, real name Mthokozi Khathi, for his support and unwavering belief in them. Wrote the twins,
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