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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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Well-known sports people present cycling seminar at Kovsies
2007-05-11
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The Sport Medicine Clinic at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented a cycling seminar on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein this week. The presenters, Mr Nick Bester, former Iron Man champion, Ms Hannele Steyn-Kotzé, Springbok in among others cycling and road cycling races, Dr Louis Holtzhausen, Director of Kovsie Health, gave an overview of the sport and focused on the technical aspects of cycling and the bicycle, conditioning (including exercise programmes and dietary recommendations) and injuries and forbidden drugs. At the seminar were, from the left: Dr Holtzhausen, Ms Steyn-Kotzé, Mr Bester and Dr Rudi de Wet from Molteno, a masters degree student in Sport Medicine at the UFS.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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