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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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World awaits UFS graduates
2009-12-07
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A group of smiling new medical doctors who graduated at the summer graduation ceremony of the University of the Free State this week. More than 200 students in the School of Medicine and the School for Allied Health Sciences of the Faculty of Health Sciences graduated. Here are, from the left, Drs Edna van der Merwe, Mandy Gowar, Ansie van der Merwe and Michelle Marais.
Photo: Leatitia Pienaar |