‘Polio and other outbreaks are possible’

FEARS are mounting that life-threatening diseases such as polio which have been widely eradicated for decades could return because of the immunisation gap caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) sounded the alarm after polio, eradicated in 1989 in South Africa, has been recorded in neighbouring countries.

This comes as Hammanskraal, just north of the country’s capital Pretoria, is battling a cholera outbreak with the death toll climbing past 20 yesterday.

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