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What are you going to be doing during the lockdown?

  • At home. I’m non essential

    Votes: 70 41.2%
  • Working. The virus doesn’t scare me

    Votes: 41 24.1%
  • On standby

    Votes: 10 5.9%
  • Working from home. Too essential to take any risk!

    Votes: 66 38.8%

  • Total voters
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Sun City set to open its own vaccination site – targeting 7,500 staff and family members
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/sun-city-vaccination-site-in-south-africa-2021-7
22 July 2021
  • Sun City, which has been closed to the public due to ongoing lockdown restrictions, will start vaccinating its staff, their family members, and the local community.
  • The Sun Arena will be used as the resort's primary vaccination site while EVDS registrations will be completed in the Warrior's Hall.
  • With the site now approved by the department of health, Sun City aims to vaccinate some 7,500 people within two months.
  • It's the first hospitality-specific site to be included in South Africa's vaccine rollout.
... Sun City's Warrior's Hall, which is big enough to accommodate up to 840 people, will be used as a registration centre, where personal details will be logged on the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS).

The Sun Arena – also known as the Superbowl – will serve as the primary vaccination site. The 1,452sqm auditorium is being prepped to vaccinate some 7,500 people.

"We will have 15 vaccinators on site, who can each vaccinate 50 people per day," explained Sun City General Manager Brett Hoppe.

"We will start with five vaccinators for 200 people for the first three days to iron out any potential glitches and then increase capacity. But we don't anticipate any problems. Sun City is used to hosting events of the size and magnitude of the Nedbank Golf Challenge, so we are confident that the preparations for our vaccination site will be seamless."

Sun City staff will be prioritised during the first phase of the resort's vaccination rollout, with more than 1,000 staff members aged 50 years and older being first in line to receive their jabs. Once staff, service providers, and concessionaires have been vaccinated, these employees' family members will then get their chance.

The third and final phase of Sun City's rollout will extend to all workers in hospitality establishments in the Moses Kotane District.

Sun City’s convention centre has received the health department's seal of approval to operate as a vaccination site until December. But Hoppe hopes to have all employees, their family members, and eligible community members vaccinated within two months. "
 
Gauteng’s new R500m hospital only has six patients
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-af...patients-e0130e90-b32d-4bb1-b5ae-56bb19206eea
22 July 2021

"The R500m hospital opened amid much fanfare by Gauteng premier David Makhura to help with the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases has only had 25 patients since it started operating in May and currently has six.

The Gauteng Health Department spent R500m refurbishing the hospital, which was donated to the province by AngloGold Ashanti hospital as part of the response to Covid-19 with the hope that it would also permanently contribute to the provision of quality healthcare in the West Rand.

However, Gauteng MEC for Health Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi has revealed that the 175-bed hospital, which has a staff complement of 32 that includes four doctors and 21 nurses, only has six patients. These patients, she said, only receive “step down services” and need to be transferred to other hospitals in the area for specialist treatment.

In a written response to the DA’s Jack Bloom which IOL has also seen, Mokgethi says none of the beds have oxygen provision for patients as procurement processes were at the finalisation stages regarding the service provider for oxygen delivery.

In her response, Mokgethi also reveals that those who need specialist treatment are transferred to Leratong, Sterkfontein, Dr Yusuf Dadoo and Carletonville Hospitals.

According to Bloom, it was tragic that the expensive refurbishment of the hospital was to provide much-needed ICU beds to Covid-19 patients but can’t be used as they don’t have equipment.

“None of the beds have oxygen provision for patients, which is the main thing that saves lives in this terrible pandemic.

“There are 32 staff running this hospital and 24 more staff are being recruited to start on 1 August.

“It is scandalous that so much money has been spent on this hospital which is far from major population centres and currently has 175 empty beds and vastly more staff than patients.

“Meanwhile, other public hospitals are straining to cope with the flood of Covid-19 patients and many die because of a dire shortage of ICU beds..."
 
Picked the coldest day of the year to go get my 1st jab - went to Ackermans in Germiston - only 50 injections available !!!
Decided to go to Yeoville rec center , waited in the polar wind and non shining sun , but worth it - next one 03/09/21
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EVDS can handle 160,000 registrations a minute – and soon you’ll be able to book a site and time slot
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/pick-a-place-and-time-for-covid-19-vaccine-on-the-evds-2021-7
23 July 2021
  • South Africa's Electronic Vaccination Data System is used to register and schedule vaccination appointments.
  • It can process 2.5 million registrations in 15 minutes and automatically allocates timeslots and sites according to a user's location and regional vaccine supply.
  • But this automated scheduling has sent some people to far-flung places to get their jabs.
  • To limit frustrations, an additional scheduling platform will be added to the EVDS, allowing people to decide where and when they want to be vaccinated.

"This should be ready to go live, if everything goes to plan [but] with technology, you never know, towards the end of the first week of August."
 
Tokyo Olympics most shambolic in decades, and there's a chance they'll be cancelled after they've started
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/t...ncelled-as-opening-ceremony-draws-near-2021-7
22 July 2021
  • The Tokyo Olympics could still be cancelled, even though they have already started.
  • Olympic organisers have refused to rule out cancelling the games, as Covid case numbers rise.
  • 91 Covid cases have already been linked to the games, and this number is expected to rise.
 
Pick n Pay calls for end to booze ban
https://www.ecigssa.co.za/lockdown-diaries.t65839/page-278
23 July 2021

"...Newly appointed CEO, Pieter Boone, says he believes it is now time for the president to announce a lifting of the ban on liquor sales .. Saying government has to recognise that many independent shopkeepers depend on responsible liquor sales to sustain their businesses, and will not survive another prolonged ban...."

[Concerned about independent shopkeepers - or about PnP's diminished profits??]
 
Picked the coldest day of the year to go get my 1st jab - went to Ackermans in Germiston - only 50 injections available !!!
Decided to go to Yeoville rec center , waited in the polar wind and non shining sun , but worth it - next one 03/09/21
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Picked the coldest day of the year to go get my 1st jab - went to Ackermans in Germiston - only 50 injections available !!!
Decided to go to Yeoville rec center , waited in the polar wind and non shining sun , but worth it - next one 03/09/21
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My wife also got hers for the teachers this morning. Had to go into the local township. But at least it was quick. She was back home by 10.

Now we are sorted for now. But I hear Pfizer has applied for the 3rd jab to be approved by the FDA. Will have to see what happens with that. At this stage I don't see it will be recommended as the 2nd jab. Will be more of a case of get it if you want.
 
My wife also got hers for the teachers this morning. Had to go into the local township. But at least it was quick. She was back home by 10.

Now we are sorted for now. But I hear Pfizer has applied for the 3rd jab to be approved by the FDA. Will have to see what happens with that. At this stage I don't see it will be recommended as the 2nd jab. Will be more of a case of get it if you want.
Some European countries started with their 3rd injections for the high risk categories about 2 months ago...
 
It'll also be used for geopolitical purposes.... some things don't change.

That one is par for course.

A friend of mine's dad did contract work at the USA embassy in March. As they walked in they got the jab. Was either that or contract is cancelled.
 
That one is par for course.

A friend of mine's dad did contract work at the USA embassy in March. As they walked in they got the jab. Was either that or contract is cancelled.
At the moment it's total chaos. People vaccinated in Europe are not recognized as such in the US and vice versa. Certain countries like France are trying to firce the vaccination by imposing restrictions on non-immunized people when a few months ago the President was committing that it'll always be voluntary etc.
 
@Grand Guru can you perhaps confirm how long after having the virus can we safely go for the jab?
We have seen everything from 14 days, 30 days to 90 days?
 
But there are recomendations that if you needed oxygen or hospitalised that you wait 90 days to make sure you recover completely.
Okay, so 30 days after diagnosis, or after recovery? If after contraction, I can go from Monday! :clap:
 
Okay, so 30 days after diagnosis, or after recovery? If after contraction, I can go from Monday! :clap:

The best person to say would be your doctor.

I would say to be on the safe side 30 days after recovery. Your immune system is very sensitive to any Covid antigens right now, so your chances of having side effects is much greater.
 
OK, Did not wake up with horns :devil: or 666 tattooed on my butt :asz: , no ROBOCOP attachments :flamethrower2:,no excessive thirst :godsdrink0nw: after the 1st jab yesterday ,so guess the nanobots misfired :syringe: , it's safe ;-)
 
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