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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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Two professors in Chemistry visit the UFS
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An affiliated professor and an extraordinary professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of the Free State (UFS) visited the Main Campus in Bloemfontein to present classes to honours students. From the left: Prof. Rui Carvalho (Associate professor at the University of Coimbra in Portugal), Prof Jan van der Westhuizen (Associate professor at the UFS Department of Chemistry) and Prof. Daneel Ferreira (Research professor at the University of Mississippi in the United States of America). Prof. Carvalho is an affiliated professor at the UFS and specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy research and Prof. Ferreira is an extraordinary professor at the UFS, who specialises in natural product chemistry.
Photo: Lacea Loader
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