There's an article about SA on the BBC.
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It's on the BBC Website, under News > Africa
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It's on the BBC Website, under News > Africa
First Corona Virus case confirmed in SA.
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Covid-19 update: Virus hits townships, judge appointed to monitor cellphone tracking
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/c...verything-we-know-about-covid-19-in-sa-2020-3
3 April 2020
Last updated: 18:24, 3 April 2020.
"Number of confirmed cases in South Africa: 1 505
Deaths: 7, two additional deaths being confirmed
In confirming the latest numbers, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says the virus being seen in densely populated areas, like townships, has given the pandemic a "new dynamic", and the government wants to hit these areas first when it comes to taking measures to curb the spread.
Minister of Mining and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, announced that three people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the mining and energy sector. One each in the Western Cape, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.
Kate O'Regan (62), former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, has been appointed to monitor government's tracking of citizens' cellphones.
As of Thursday the South African government can trace the movements of any South African cellphone user back as far as 5 March, in order to fight Covid-19.
That movement data will go into a special database to identify anyone who may have had physical contact with a person known to be carrying the SARS-Cov-2 virus, for possible testing and quarantine.
Users whose locations are traced need not be notified initially, but O'Regan will be given a list of the people affected – after the fact – in order to make recommendations about privacy protections. In the month after the state of national disaster is ended, those who were tracked must be told their movements had been traced.
The database is due to be de-identified, leaving only general data for future study, six weeks after South Africa's national state of disaster around Covid-19 is declared over."
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/c...verything-we-know-about-covid-19-in-sa-2020-3
3 April 2020
Last updated: 18:24, 3 April 2020.
"Number of confirmed cases in South Africa: 1 505
Deaths: 7, two additional deaths being confirmed
In confirming the latest numbers, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says the virus being seen in densely populated areas, like townships, has given the pandemic a "new dynamic", and the government wants to hit these areas first when it comes to taking measures to curb the spread.
Minister of Mining and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, announced that three people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the mining and energy sector. One each in the Western Cape, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.
Kate O'Regan (62), former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, has been appointed to monitor government's tracking of citizens' cellphones.
As of Thursday the South African government can trace the movements of any South African cellphone user back as far as 5 March, in order to fight Covid-19.
That movement data will go into a special database to identify anyone who may have had physical contact with a person known to be carrying the SARS-Cov-2 virus, for possible testing and quarantine.
Users whose locations are traced need not be notified initially, but O'Regan will be given a list of the people affected – after the fact – in order to make recommendations about privacy protections. In the month after the state of national disaster is ended, those who were tracked must be told their movements had been traced.
The database is due to be de-identified, leaving only general data for future study, six weeks after South Africa's national state of disaster around Covid-19 is declared over."
This is what is needed in densely-populated areas of SA.
Police in China use smart helmet to detect possible Coronavi ..
https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-new...coronavirus-patients/articleshow/74668611.cms
Read the article ... it says that police who are wearing these helmets just need to look at someone to know what their body temperature is. Brilliant idea!!
Police in China use smart helmet to detect possible Coronavi ..
https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-new...coronavirus-patients/articleshow/74668611.cms
Read the article ... it says that police who are wearing these helmets just need to look at someone to know what their body temperature is. Brilliant idea!!
Wow!
Thanks for sharing that @Grand Guru
What an excellent resource!
So much great ove how you can press play on the maps to see how the data has changed over time
I haven’t read that page very carefully, just looked at it briefly
But I still don’t see number of tests being shown anywhere
Maybe they don’t collate that data
Anyhow, it’s an excellent resource and I am bookmarking that page
All the countries collate the data on the total number of tests but countries are adopting different approaches to testing. The state of New York for instance decided to go wild on testing and implemented a very large scale testing campaign and picked up a remarkably high number of positive cases most of which are not going to need admission. France and Italy decided to target those who qualify for admission to hospital and wouldn’t test those who clinically are suggestive of the disease but are stable enough to go self confine and medicate at home. In other words the number of tests won’t reflect the same thing in 2 different countries so it's not that relevant...
You get what you measure
All the countries collate the data on the total number of tests but countries are adopting different approaches to testing. The state of New York for instance decided to go wild on testing and implemented a very large scale testing campaign and picked up a remarkably high number of positive cases most of which are not going to need admission. France and Italy decided to target those who qualify for admission to hospital and wouldn’t test those who clinically are suggestive of the disease but are stable enough to go self confine and medicate at home. In other words the number of tests won’t reflect the same thing in 2 different countries so it's not that relevant...
You get what you measure
Ok thanks
That makes sense
So I guess the main statistic then is the number of deaths
I assume that measurement is fairly consistent across countries
We have 7 deaths in SA, so I assume that for now and our stage in the situation, we are doing relatively well compared to several other countries. But it’s still early days...
Yes the death rate (not the number of deaths) is better parameter. But, even then we must compare apples with apples... Europe has undoubtedly a much more resourceful healthcare system but an aging population, we have a crippling healthcare system, an HIV and TB epidemic but a younger population...
I agree with you, we are still in the early stages of the epidemic. We need to stay focused on the barrier measures for a good 6 months to prevent an explosion in the number of cases with which our healthcare facilities wouldn’t cope...
Here is a good paper to read on our situation https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/arch...-collide-tb-hiv-and-covid-19-in-south-africa/
One thing that we have here despite everything else that still needs to be figured out... Is some of the world's best Medical professionals.
Technology might find the problem and help solve it quicker ,but experience will do a better job of the whole process.
Shout out to our Med. Staff and support staff.
That’s exactly what I tell my staff to motivate them. There is simply no other nation that is as prepared for this epidemic as this nation, not with resources but with skills! We have been dealing with multi-drug resistant TB and with HIV for the last 30 years and we know how to deal with infectious diseases better than anyone else. I sincerely hope I’m right!One thing that we have here despite everything else that still needs to be figured out... Is some of the world's best Medical professionals.
Technology might find the problem and help solve it quicker ,but experience will do a better job of the whole process.
Shout out to our Med. Staff and support staff.
We have the toughest medical exams and still the longest study period even though things has changed a little. So we should be prepared for most scenarios.
It's all just down to how we handle it.
And according to me can handle it!
Have to agree with you.
I have all my trust in Prof Lucille Bloomberg and her team at NICD.
We had many VHF cases in hospitals and it was handled so professionally that not even the media got hold of it. One Congo Fever as recent as February in a Joburg hospital. I thought the media was going to blow it out of proportion, but not a word came from it. Patient recovered and nobody got infected from it.
They even help to contain the Ebola outbreak thats been going for a while now in Central Africa.
The problem now is we need the public to cooperate. Police and military can do just so much without resorting to force.
That’s tragic @Timwis. It seems that the Queen is going to deliver a special speech today. Stay and you loved ones safe!
This one is going to get me a whole lot of Vitriol.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestn...al-certificate-to-identify-who-is-vaccinated/
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestn...al-certificate-to-identify-who-is-vaccinated/
Like everybody got 5G on their phone?
Next you are going to tell me this virus was designed by the "New World Order" (whatever that is) and in order to get the vaccine I will have to sell my soul to the giant spaghetti monster.
Waar kom mense aan die k@k?
I'm done with fantasy theories. You believe what you want. It doesn't mean anything to me. To me its about what is lying ahead and how to get over it. These conspiracies are not doing anything about that.
We still have the UFO nuts to come up with the virus was brought to Earth by extra terrestrial life on an asteroid conspiracy, watch this space!
If it's on the internet, especially Reddit, then it must be true...
Of course all ridiculous ideas when everybody knows it originated on Discworld!
Replace the turtle with a bat and the theory will hold water
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