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Good Morning, SA | Covid-19 deaths mostly among unvaccinated - Western Cape data, and pandemic hurting performance artists

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Early data in the Western Cape shows that most of the deaths from Covid-19 are among the unvaccinated, performance artists are struggling amid the pandemic which limits their ability to play to live audiences, and people are flocking to pay their last res View Online Good Morning, SA Most of the deaths from Covid-19 are among the unvaccinated, disturbing new data shows, and performance artists are struggling amid the pandemic which limits their ability to play to live audiences. SHELDON MORAIS , ASSISTANT EDITOR: BREAKING NEWS Covid-19: Majority of Western Cape's deaths among unvaccinated patients, early data shows The story: More than 90% of Covid-19 deaths were among unvaccinated patients...

FRIDAY BRIEFING | The best of 2021: How we were pushed to the edge

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Vaccine mandates, riots, fake baby drama news, and mayhem in Mozambique. 2021 tested us to the limits.    EDITORIAL 2021: The year that tested the limits In 2020, our life as we knew it changed dramatically as the global Covid-19 pandemic saw emergency measures, lockdowns and states of disaster implemented - almost universally – in an effort to contain and deal with the virus. By the time 2021 rolled around, it appeared that the adjustments to life and livelihoods were by now customary and that people had by and large settled down to pandemic life. But in many respects, 2021 was harder: people yearned for a return to life before 2020. Others reckoned with the effects of disease and death, loss of life and loved ones, as the disease's emergence of the Delta variant continued to wreak havoc. Vaccines were thought to be the answer. But in South Africa – vacc...