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Mandatory COVID Vaccinations Finds Low Support In Africa: Study

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Mandatory COVID Vaccinations Finds Low Support In Africa: Study: Less than half of the African continent is amenable to mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19, according to a study by a group of scientists, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal, PLOS One. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. South African doctors see signs omicron is milder than delta variant: As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Gove leads push for Covid Plan C including ‘pub passports’ after modelling showed Omicron could cause MORE hospitalisations than last winter – but No 10 resists new crackdown …: Gove’s push for Plan C comes after scientists advising the British government said tougher Covid restrictions may be needed to prevent Omicron causing upwards of 75,000 deaths. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. South Africa’s Omicron outbreak slows as expert says population’s T-cell immunity against Covid has kept hospitalisations low and praises government for not locking down: Nationally 17,154 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, around 1,000 more than the tally on the previous Saturday, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. South African doctors: Omicron may be milder than delta: As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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The Carlton Centre: A Monument of Concrete and Contradiction

Rising 223 meters into the Highveld sky, the Carlton Centre was for nearly half a century the undisputed “king” of the African skyline. Completed in 1973, it held the title of the tallest building in Africa for 46 years—a reign that only ended in 2019 with the completion of The Leonardo in Sandton. It was designed by the prestigious American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (the same minds behind the Burj Khalifa and Chicago’s Willis Tower), and its brutalist, reinforced concrete design was intended to be a “city within a city,” a symbol of South Africa’s then-booming industrial and mining economy.