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"No alcohol will be sold during lockdown" Bheki Cele The Gauteng Liquor Forum wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa arguing that it was their constitutional mandate to continue trading alcohol and threatening to approach the Constitutional Court for legal recourse. Image: Supplied POLITICS Selling booze under lockdown 'equal to conspiring for mass murder of poor': EFF said. The EFF has condemned requests by the Gauteng Liquor Forum for Covid-19 lockdown regulations to be relaxed and for government to allow the sale of alcohol. “This call is tantamount to conspiring for the mass murder of the poor, in particular black people. Selling alcohol during a war against Covid-19 to communities with historic existing problems of access to health care. malnutrition and general hunger only serves one purpose: to finish our people,” the EFF said. This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the 21-day lockdown by a further two weeks. The liquor forum wrote to R...
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Two French doctors have been accused of racism after suggesting vaccines against  coronavirus  should first be tested on people in Africa. The comments were made on the French television channel LCI, during a discussion about Covid-19 trials set to be launched in Europe and Australia to see if the BCG tuberculosis vaccine could be used to treat the novel disease. Head of intensive care at Paris Chochin Hospital, Jean-Paul Mira, said Africa would offer better testing conditions.  ‘If I could be provocative, shouldn’t we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatment, no intensive care, rather as was done with certain studies on AIDS, where things are tested on prostitutes because it’s known that they are highly exposed (to HIV)?’  he said. Camille Locht, research director at France’s national health institute, agreed. He said: ‘You’re right, we are thinking in parallel by the way about a study in Africa with the same kind of approac...
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