Coronavirus COVID-19 News specific to South Africa

[LD50]

I'm over this shit

 

[Dave]

I'm over this shit

Just don’t fall in getting over it, you’ll end up stinking.

 

[satanboy]

South Africa’s ‘actual’ Covid-19 death rate – one year later

On 5 March 2020, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize briefed president Cyril Ramaphosa that South Africa had reported its first Covid-19 case.

businesstech.co.za

 

[satanboy]

Black Africans show higher level of immunity to Covid-19, blood analysis findings say | News24

Analysis of a sample of Black Africans who donated blood show they have built up a higher degree of immunity to Covid-19 than other population groups.

www.news24.com

Racist virus.

 

[satanboy]

‘Doctors’ wives’ jump Covid queue

Private doctors and civilians have been exploiting gaps in the public health system to get vaccinated

mg.co.za

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Nicholas]

Black Africans show higher level of immunity to Covid-19, blood analysis findings say | News24

Analysis of a sample of Black Africans who donated blood show they have built up a higher degree of immunity to Covid-19 than other population groups.

www.news24.com

Racist virus.

Is this because the majority of people who have been infected are Black Africans?

 

[biometrics]

Overstrand active cases (Kleinmond, Hermanus, Stanford and Gansbaai)

27 Nov 41
29 Nov 64
7 Dec 98
9 Dec 122
11 Dec 138
14 Dec 207
17 Dec 287
18 Dec 314
21 Dec 376
23 Dec 481
24 Dec 559
28 Dec 661
30 Dec 623
31 Dec 748
4 Jan 733
6 Jan 678
8 Jan 734
11 Jan 507
14 Jan 656
18 Jan 759
20 Jan 511
22 Jan 482
25 Jan 478
27 Jan 418
29 Jan 422
1 Feb 160
3 Feb 161
8 Feb 123
10 Feb 114
12 Feb 105
15 Feb 82
19 Feb 68
24 Feb 67
26 Feb 65
5 Mar 49

 

[bigAl-sa]

Actives are lower than before December wave

Nice to see actives are below 30k for the first time in a long while

 

[biometrics]

Nice to see actives are below 30k for the first time in a long while

In my area it's back to November levels before the second wave.

 

[biometrics]

Now the results of a trial published in the prestigious Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) should strengthen Sahpra’s arm in its legal battles. Among 398 adults with mild Covid-19, a five-day course of ivermectin compared with a placebo, did not significantly improve symptoms.

This was a double-blind, randomised trial. In other words, neither the participants nor the researchers knew who was receiving ivermectin or a placebo until the trial was finished. It is the first such study with published peer-reviewed results. (A trial with inconclusive results was published in The Lancet a few weeks ago but it only had 24 participants.)

The findings don’t support the use of ivermectin for treatment of mild Covid-19, although larger trials may be needed to understand the effects of ivermectin on other clinically relevant outcomes, the researchers concluded.

GROUNDUP : Ivermectin no wonder drug, the first substantial peer-reviewed clinical trial shows

Four court cases have been launched against the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) to compel the regulator to make ivermectin available for the treatment of Covid-19. Among the applicants are Afriforum and the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP). Yet not a single...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[biometrics]

Overstrand active cases (Kleinmond, Hermanus, Stanford and Gansbaai)

27 Nov 41
29 Nov 64
7 Dec 98
9 Dec 122
11 Dec 138
14 Dec 207
17 Dec 287
18 Dec 314
21 Dec 376
23 Dec 481
24 Dec 559
28 Dec 661
30 Dec 623
31 Dec 748
4 Jan 733
6 Jan 678
8 Jan 734
11 Jan 507
14 Jan 656
18 Jan 759
20 Jan 511
22 Jan 482
25 Jan 478
27 Jan 418
29 Jan 422
1 Feb 160
3 Feb 161
8 Feb 123
10 Feb 114
12 Feb 105
15 Feb 82
19 Feb 68
24 Feb 67
26 Feb 65
5 Mar 49
8 Mar 40

 

[biometrics]

Overstrand active cases (Kleinmond, Hermanus, Stanford and Gansbaai)

27 Nov 41
29 Nov 64
7 Dec 98
9 Dec 122
11 Dec 138
14 Dec 207
17 Dec 287
18 Dec 314
21 Dec 376
23 Dec 481
24 Dec 559
28 Dec 661
30 Dec 623
31 Dec 748
4 Jan 733
6 Jan 678
8 Jan 734
11 Jan 507
14 Jan 656
18 Jan 759
20 Jan 511
22 Jan 482
25 Jan 478
27 Jan 418
29 Jan 422
1 Feb 160
3 Feb 161
8 Feb 123
10 Feb 114
12 Feb 105
15 Feb 82
19 Feb 68
24 Feb 67
26 Feb 65
5 Mar 49
8 Mar 40
12 Mar 40

 

[bigAl-sa]

SA under 25k actives, but...

 

[bigAl-sa]

I see Google has forced Eskom se Push to withdraw their daily SA corona scorecard:

EskomSePush stops Covid updates after Google Play suspension | Businessinsider

The massively popular South African app, EskomSePush, was suspended from the Google Play app store this weekend.

www.businessinsider.co.za

It was a very useful digest of what was going on.

Methinks Google is getting way too big for its britches.

 

[biometrics]

I see Google has forced Eskom se Push to withdraw their daily SA corona scorecard:

EskomSePush stops Covid updates after Google Play suspension | Businessinsider

The massively popular South African app, EskomSePush, was suspended from the Google Play app store this weekend.

www.businessinsider.co.za

It was a very useful digest of what was going on.

Methinks Google is getting way too big for its britches.

They recently forced me to remove GPS tracking from an app and when I published it was forced to use the latest SDK 29 which don’t allow access to the directory we used for years forcing changes and an enforced update procedure for users as to not lose data. Google really pisses me off, almost as much as Apple. These companies don’t give a shit what their constant changes do to developers.

 

[biometrics]

On Tuesday, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) approved the Section 21 application for the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.

How the Pfizer vaccine – just provisionally approved in SA – was designed in a few hours | Businessinsider

BioNTech co-founder Ugur Sahin designed 10 different vaccine candidates over a single day in January last year.

www.businessinsider.co.za

Now for the J&J approval.

 

[biometrics]

Actives still going down:

 

[biometrics]

Overstrand active cases (Kleinmond, Hermanus, Stanford and Gansbaai)

27 Nov 41
29 Nov 64
7 Dec 98
9 Dec 122
11 Dec 138
14 Dec 207
17 Dec 287
18 Dec 314
21 Dec 376
23 Dec 481
24 Dec 559
28 Dec 661
30 Dec 623
31 Dec 748
4 Jan 733
6 Jan 678
8 Jan 734
11 Jan 507
14 Jan 656
18 Jan 759
20 Jan 511
22 Jan 482
25 Jan 478
27 Jan 418
29 Jan 422
1 Feb 160
3 Feb 161
8 Feb 123
10 Feb 114
12 Feb 105
15 Feb 82
19 Feb 68
24 Feb 67
26 Feb 65
5 Mar 49
8 Mar 40
12 Mar 40
15 Mar 35

Under 40, excellent.

 

[biometrics]

Third wave starting...

Warnings that COVID infections in SA are slowly increasing

In the past few days the Northern Cape, in particular, has seen a marked increase.

ewn.co.za

 

[satanboy]