An Infectious Diseases Physician at Tygerberg Hospital, Dr Jantjie Taljaard says during the third wave, all the people admitted, in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit were not vaccinated.

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His voice joins that of other healthcare workers in the province, who say they’ve seen that vaccines save lives. The spokesperson for the provincial health department, Maret Lesch says there’s a call on chronic medical condition patients to urgently head to sites.

Further afield: The world has passed the grim threshold of 4.5 million Covid-19 deaths, as the virulent Delta variant wreaks havoc globally. Some 10 000 deaths are reported every day in the world, a much lower figure than the highs of January when an average of 14 800 people was being killed daily.

Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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