All Covid-19 restrictions lifted in SA and the first case of monkeypox in South Africa. Kuhle Tshabalala takes us through the big news stories making headlines this week ending on Friday 24 June 2022
Top stories:
# The National Institute of Communicable Diseases says it started contact tracing and identifying any additional linked cases of monkeypox in the country.
# South Africans no longer required to wear face masks
# There have been reports of snow in the Kalahari
* Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder; and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.