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Anonymous ID: f5604f Dec. 25, 2020, 5:53 p.m. No.12176760   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Report: 15 Die Waiting In COVID-19 Testing Backlogs At South African Border

 

As a result of backlogs in COVID-19 testing for travelers crossing national borders, at least 15 people have reportedly died on the South African border with Zimbabwe as holiday traffic surged at the Beitbridge border port.

 

Travel between South Africa and Zimbabwe is busier than usual at this time of year due to a seasonal return of migrants to Zimbabwe, Reuters reported. South Africa is home to around 1.5 million Zimbabwean migrants according to a United Nations estimate.

 

Sandile Buthelezi, the director-general of South Africa’s Health Department, announced Friday that COVID-19 screenings had been suspended after the deaths were reported, according to South African media outlet eNCA. He cited public safety and noted that proof of a negative COVID-19 test would be required within 30 days of re-entry.

 

Videos shown on local news outlets and circulated on social media show long lines of cars and trucks on the road leading to the Beitbridge port, the main border crossing between the two countries.

 

A Zimbabwean woman reportedly died Tuesday after collapsing near the border in the city of Limpopo, according to eNCA. She reportedly experienced fatigue and dizziness and asked fellow passengers to pray for her before she died. Other Zimbabwean migrants have reportedly complained about a lack of food and water.

 

Some lawmakers in South Africa have called for government intervention to prevent more deaths but authorities say clearing the congested border port could take weeks, according to eNCA.

 

Health officials say South Africa is currently experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 infections, according to Reuters. Officials believe surging infections are partly due to a mutation in the virus identified by South African researchers earlier this month.

 

The country has around 968,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and nearly 26,000 deaths according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/25/south-africa-zimbabwe-border-coronavirus-testing-backlog-deaths/

Anonymous ID: f5604f Dec. 25, 2020, 6:02 p.m. No.12176881   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6928

This stinks to me, no names ship provoking war???!!!

 

John S. McCain conducts Christmas Eve FONOP in South China Sea

 

The U.S. Navy warship John S. McCain conducted a freedom of navigation operation, or FONOP, Christmas Eve in the South China Sea, its second such operation this week.

 

The guided-missile destroyer “asserted navigational rights and freedoms near Vietnam in the vicinity of the Con Dao Island in the South China Sea” on Thursday, according to the Japan-based U.S. 7th Fleet.

 

“The ship conducted normal operations within Vietnam’s claimed territorial seas to challenge excessive maritime claims and preserve access and navigational freedoms consistent with international law,” the command said in a statement.

 

While China and other South China Sea nations increasingly try to claim traditionally international waters as their own, the U.S. Navy regularly sends ships through to bolster the claim that such waters are open to all.

 

On Tuesday, John S. McCain steamed near the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in order to challenge similar excessive maritime claims.

 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/12/24/john-s-mccain-conducts-christmas-eve-fonop-in-south-china-sea/