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MY COVID JOURNEY FROM HELL

IF THERE’S one message she wants to get across, it’s this: don’t be complacent.

The third wave of the pandemic is here and if ever there was a time to banish Covid fatigue, it’s now.

Jan Simonsz-Coe, a 35-year-old manager of a Cape Town-based medical practice, lost her baby and very nearly her life to the virus.

She spent 79 days in ICU – and just as she was recovering, she lost her mother to cancer. She’s now sharing her harrowing story as she believes “cautionary tales are imperative right now”. Here is her story.

IT’S so easy to forget the reality of the situation we’re in. There’s also a certain level of stigma attached to the things

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