COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES | Eastern Cape battles bed shortage as Covid-19 infections surge

24 May 2020 - 6:40About 600 parents who are afraid to send their children back to school this week bombarded a Facebook group with home-schooling inquiries.

The issue of tobacco and alcohol sales split President Cyril Ramaphosa's National Command Council down the middle, igniting so much debate that a meeting to discuss the regulations lasted five hours, with no final decision taken on tobacco sales, insiders told the Sunday Times.SA is in a race against time to build more than 15,000 ventilators in a matter of weeks to meet a predicted surge in Covid-19 cases.

The government acknowledged this week it was still deciding which of the six shortlisted companies it would give contracts to.Job losses in Gauteng 'will have a ripple effect across entire economy' - experts

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