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Parents express mixed views about the reopening of public schools as government schools across the
Nada appeals for government to reduce taxes on sale of vehicles
The National Automobile Dealers’ Association has appealed for the government to reduce the taxes on
WHO reform needed in wake of pandemic, public health experts say
The role and remit of the World Health Organisation (WHO) should be examined in the wake of the
Pandemic boosts cosmetic surgery in South Korea
A 20-year-old university student Ryu Han-na got cosmetic surgery on her nose in mid-December,
In pandemic and recession, Santa Claus gifts bread and clothes to poor Venezuelan kids
Santa Claus walked the streets of the outskirts of Venezuela’s capital Caracas this weekend, giving
‘Pandemic’ chosen as Word of the Year
The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic.
UN says needs $655 million to avert new measles and polio epidemics
Severe disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to immunisation campaigns against measles and
Lack of global leadership is ‘greatest threat’ in fighting pandemic, says WHO
The lack of global leadership and unity to fight the coronavirus is a bigger threat than the
World stocks drift lower as second wave virus fears mount
Global stocks drifted lower on Thursday as an increase in new coronavirus cases in some US states
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South African wine industry on its knees as lockdown set to ease
Two years ago, South Africa’s first black female winemaker Ntsiki Biyela watched anxiously as the
WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a pandemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. However, the
China virus death toll rises to 41, more than 1 300 infected worldwide
The virus has also been detected in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Nepal,