MedicalBrief 293 - 12 March 2020 (1)
"South Africa, with 13 imported coronavirus cases, currently fits the World Health Organisation’s Transmission Scenario Two. Dr Richard Kaplan, writing for MedicalBrief, outlines decision-making and management options for local medical practitioners.
Kaplan writes:
The latest World Health Organisation (WHO) COVID-19 situation report dated 10 March 2020 states that five new territories (Brunei Darussalam, Mongolia, Cyprus, Guernsey and Panama) have reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Over 100 countries have now reported laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Worldwide 119,663 cases have been reported with 4,293 deaths. Currently the main increases in the epidemic are occurring in Italy, Spain, France, Iran, the USA and South Korea with China controlling spread of infection with 20 new reported cases and 17 new deaths in 24 hours.
And on Wednesday, March 11, the WHO reluctantly declared a pandemic with its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus saying, “Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly”.
South Africa currently has 13 confirmed cases – with an unspecified number of contacts in self quarantine. To date all cases have been imported with no reports of community acquired COVID-19."
Read more:
https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/archives/medical-cannabis-what-sa-practitioners-need-to-know/
