Just 37% of News24 readers expect to be infected with Covid-19 in the future.Just 29% of 18 to 24-year-olds expect to be infected.The majority of readers who said they will have access to quality healthcare if infected are white.A News24/Ipsos poll has revealed what appears to be high levels of apathy among News24 readers toward…

CLOSE Country star Keith Urban played a concert for medical workers at a drive-in movie theater in Tennessee. (May 15) AP Entertainment"The year 2020 has come to be a defining period that has impacted all of us around the world in ways we could have never imagined,  host Dwayne Johnson said, explaining the intertwined forces that…

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In downtown Buffalo, New York, crossing the border into Ontario, Canada, used to be as easy as driving one mile across the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River. But that's now a forbidden route. In t…

One of Port Elizabeth's largest funeral parlour services say some hospitals have asked him to store bodies as deaths rise.Another undertaker explains why he refuses to store the bodies of people who died of Covid-19.Private hospitals say they have made arrangements for holding facilities on their premises.One of Port Elizabeth's biggest funeral parlour services says…

Here's what's happening with COVID-19 around the world on Saturday.Medical technicians wearing personal protective equipment get ready to collect samples at a COVID-19 testing centre in Chennai, India, on Friday. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)The latest: India coronavirus cases now total more than 500,000. Russia's daily number of new COVID-19 cases stays below 7,000. Texas and…

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(CNN)At least five states reported their highest single day record of Covid-19 cases Friday, adding to the growing concern of case increases that has sent many states back-peddling on their reopening…

Nurses have been on the frontline since the pandemic hit South Africa. Chris McGrath/Getty Images A Groote Schuur Hospital nursing assistant has described dealing with Covid-19 as "a war". Judith Parenzee has already lost colleagues to the virus.She says her days are spent rushing from one patient to the next.Groote Schuur Hospital nursing assistant Judith…

Remember in the past, how you would turn the oil heating system off for the summer months and then when you turned it back on, it did not work? So you needed a visit from a heating engineer for help? It's easy to switch things off but often much harder to turn them back on…