OPINION: Coronavirus calls on us to find new ways of doing business at home and abroad | by Anna Mokgokong
We should continue the health education of promoting safer behaviours - hand washing, disinfection, masks, ventilation, and avoidance of risky contact and measures to strengthen our immune system, writes As the coronavirus causes pandemonium, fear, mass quarantines and people switch to surgical masks in the hopes of avoiding infection, should we be concerned about the pandemic's impact on economies as billions are lost in Gross Domestic Product?Should we be concerned about the situation...
No one would have guessed then that polio would now be under control or that its eradication from this planet would be a goal of the World Health Organisation . So, what can we all to do to combat the scourge of the coronavirus? The issue now is to have a realistic strategy to deal with the problem of emerging infections.
While we hope scientists will soon crack the genetic code of the coronavirus, to beat the coronavirus will all require a sea of changes in attitudes, reward structures, and management concepts for surveillance and epidemiological investigations to really work in most countries. Let us commend our Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, for the way he has handled the crisis and communicated our country state of readiness.
We should continue the health education of promoting safer behaviours - hand washing, disinfection, masks, ventilation, and avoidance of risky contact and measures to strengthen our immune system.
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