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LIFT TRAVEL BANS, OMICRON HAS ‘PROBABLY ALREADY SPREAD GLOBALLY’, SAY TOP SA
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HOSPITAL BEDS SHORTAGE FOR VERY ILL COVID-19 PATIENTS A POSSIBILITY, ACTUARIAL
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At least one-million people might require acute hospital care if there is
sustained community transmission of Covid-19 in SA, according to projections by
an expert from the Actuarial Society of SA (Assa).

The forecast raises the spectre of a looming shortage of beds for critically ill
patients, as only about 1,000 of the 85,000 beds in the public sector are set
aside for intensive care, according to Assa member Shivani Ranchod, CEO of
Percept Health...






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