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Gauteng Premier David Makhura says that while the province is prepared for the third wave of Covid-19, "you can never be prepared enough".
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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Former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku's legal team said it would carefully study the judgment and determine an appropriate course of action.
A senior representative and shadow minister for the DA was pushed to the limit on Monday, after he slammed Cyril Ramaphosa for 'repetitive whinging'.
Infirmed patients faced a horrifying situation on Friday night, as flames and smoke engulfed the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Gauteng.
The weather in your province
There will be morning fog patches over the central and southern Highveld of Mpumalanga, otherwise fine and cool but warm on the Lowveld.
There will be morning frost over the southern high ground in the eastern parts of the Northern Cape, with fog along the west coast where it will be cloudy and cool, otherwise fine and warm.
The Western Cape will have morning fog along the west and adjacent interior of the south coast, otherwise fine and cool but warm over the north-east.
Fine and warm conditions can be expected in the western half of the Eastern Cape.
KwaZulu-Natal can expect morning mist over the northern interior, otherwise fine and cool but warm in the north-east.
Climate threats are currently high across much of Africa, with floods, droughts and the biggest locust outbreak in generations.
Increased restrictions on movement due to COVID-19 may intensify the effects and put people at even more risk.
Major desert locust outbreaks across East Africa are threatening food security in at least eight countries and are projected to continue spreading.
Sudden onset climate change disasters such as extreme temperatures, landslides, droughts, wildfires, floods or hurricanes are the top drivers of internal migration.
In sudden onset climate disasters, people mostly flee to the nearest safe location or where there's aid.
In a statement on Monday, Tshwane Mayor Randall Williams said the city had continued to witness significant week-on-week increases in the number of active cases.
Dundo — The eastern Lunda Norte government is intensifying precautionary measures in the border areas with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to halt the import and spread of Ebola in Angolan territory.
The DRC government announced on Monday the emergence of a new Ebola outbreak in Wangata County, Mbandaka, in the province of Ecuador (north).
Although the outbreak has not yet spread to the provinces of Kassai Central, Kassai, Kwango in DRC, which share border with Angola's municipalities of Cuango, Cambulo, Cuilo, Lóvua and Caungula, the government is anticipating prevention measures so as not to be caught by surprise.
According to Lunda Norte governor, Ernesto Muangala, the local government has enough biosecurity material and drugs to prevent contagion and possible positive cases of the epidemic.
He also said intervention health teams and epidemiological surveillance are being strengthened which, in addition to raising awareness about Ebola, will advise citizens living along the borders to continue to observe the COVID-19 pandemic prevention measures.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has re-imposed a strict lockdown that included the closure of schools and the suspension of inter-district travel.
The Republic of South Africa does not have a single capital city. Instead, it is one of a few countries in the world that divides its governmental powers among three of its major cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
South Africas three capital cities are strategically placed throughout the country, each hosting a separate segment of the nations government.
When asked about a single capital, most people would point to Pretoria.
In addition to these three capitals on the national level, the country is divided into nine provinces, each with their own capital city.
When looking at a map, you will also notice Lesotho in the middle of South Africa. This is not a province, but an independent country formally called the Kingdom of Lesotho. It is often referred to as an enclave of South Africa because it is surrounded by the larger nation.
If you are even briefly aware of South Africa, then you know that the country has struggled politically and culturally for many years. Apartheid is only one of the many issues the country faced since the 20th century.
In 1910, when the Union of South Africa was formed, there was a great dispute about the location of the new countrys capital city. A compromise was reached to spread a balance of power throughout the country and this led to the current capital cities.
There is a logic behind choosing these three cities:
South Africa's biggest provincial education machine - the school system in KwaZulu-Natal - has been declared safe and ready for pupils on Monday, Premier Sihle Zikalala has said.
Monday will see the arrival of grades 7 and 12 pupils at most of the province's vast network of schools.
Of the total number of schools, 6 044 were ready to reopen \"as they have met all the non-negotiables\", Zikalala said, adding 142 were not yet ready - \"but were working hard to prepare\".
\"Every learner, teacher will be screened as they enter the school premises and data captured temp, comorbidities and all critical information related to Covid-19,\" Zikalala added.
On Sunday, five teacher unions and four school governing body associations finally gave their blessing for schools to reopen this week after receiving a progress report that said 94% were ready, News24 reported.
[East African] Kinshasa -- The Democratic Republic of Congo has announced the third wave of Covid-19, dealing a new blow to local efforts to convince people to take the vaccines.
A fire that erupted at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital is believed to have destroyed supplies, such as personal protective equipment.
[This Day] Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, raised the alarm about the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, saying in July alone, some 4,300 confirmed cases were recorded with 30 fatalities. Sanwo-Olu said the current figures were worse than what obtained at the height of the pandemic last year, when a total of 64,032 cases were recorded with 56,336 recovering and 320 death.
The World Health Organization on Monday confirmed a second outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just as an initial outbreak appeared to be ending.
At a briefing Monday in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this new outbreak is near the northwestern city of Mbandaka in the DRC's Equateur province.
In 2018, Equateur province had an Ebola outbreak that killed 33 people before it was brought under control.
Elsewhere, the eastern DRC has been battling an outbreak of the deadly virus since 2018.
Seventy-two deaths have been reported.
Speaking to News24 on Friday, one of the nurses, *Bonani Mthembu, said he works at the ICU unit at the hospital, along with over 20 other colleagues.
In a response to News24, the hospital denied this, and said its management took immediate and comprehensive action to prevent the spread after a \"few staff members tested positive for Covid-19 on the same day\".
\"In consultation with staff members at the hospital, we decided to implement preventative surveillance screening after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19, which is believed to have been community-acquired.
\"Based on [the] World Health Organisation's risk grading of exposure, the hospital is in full adherence of Netcare as well as the National Institute for Communicable Diseases [NICD] and the Department of Health guidelines for the testing, quarantine and isolation of all affected staff members,\" hospital general manager Dr Louis van der Hoven said in the statement.
\"We want the hospital's ICU unit closed and cleaned, and nurses to isolate for 14 days, retest, and then not be told it comes from your leave or annual time - it should be the hospital time.\"
[Monitor] Private manufacturers of oxygen in Uganda can only make up to 27.7 million litres of oxygen per day, according to our computations, slightly less than half of the current demand, explaining chronic shortages of the life-saving gas for Covid-19 patients.
The DA's chief whip in Gauteng, Mike Moriarty, has announced he will contest Helen Zille for the position of federal council chairperson at the party's virtual congress in October.
Moriarty's confirmation he is taking on Zille comes after she was referred to the party's federal legal commission for controversial tweets she posted about apartheid.
Zille was elected DA federal council chairperson in October last year, a move that caused in turmoil in the party.
READ MORE| Formal complaints lodged by senior black DA members against Helen Zille for apartheid tweets
Moriarty said he believed he was better suited for the position.
Moriarty said his decision to contest the position was long in the works, adding he would soon convince members of his vision for the party.
The Western Cape government is rationing its Covid-19 testing in Cape Town, prioritising people it considers to be most at risk amid a nationwide backlog in test results and increased demand as it approaches its Covid-19 peak.
It is asking people in the Cape Town metro who experience mild symptoms and who are not part of one of the at-risk groups, to assume they are Covid-19 positive, and isolate themselves until more test kits are procured.
\"That does mean that explicitly, we have had to make the call that if you are under the age of 55 and you don't have comorbidities, that at this point in time, if you present yourself for testing, we will be doing screening to say to you, 'if you've got the symptoms, please isolate yourself and assume that you've got Covid[-19]',\" he head of the provincial Department of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said.
Cloete said people regarded as the most vulnerable and who are at high risk are those who are more likely to develop the moderate-to-severe form of Covid-19 and that was why they were being prioritised for testing.
The Department of Labour initially said a negative test was needed for people to go back to work, but the Western Cape health department advised that a letter and certificate from a healthcare worker would do.
Nobel Peace laureate Dr Denis Mukwege has resigned as head of a local task force fighting Covid-19 in eastern DRC in frustration at the government's response to the crisis.
Two months into his job as vice-president of a special health commission set up to fight Covid-19 in South Kivu province, Denis Mukwege called it a day on Wednesday, blaming organisational problems.
Sources from the national response team have acknowledged the resource shortage but have vowed that, as of next week, test results will be available in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu, within 24 hours.
His resignation from the special health commission could strike a blow to the entire national response team led by Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe, another renowned medical researcher in DRC.
While prioritising his role as caregiver to the influx of patients to Panzi hospital, Mukwege said he would continue to bring his \"intellectual contribution in the fight against the pandemic in the province of South Kivu\".
