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Sadly, the majority of patients are still the elderly “Some severely ill patients are being temporarily “Sadly, some people over 60 believe that once they over 60, but doctors have noticed a rise in the number ommunal experts this week issued a stern managed in casualty because there are simply no have had the virus or the vaccine, they are safe. They of patients between the ages of 40 to 60, many warning to “catch a wake up” as the community intensive-care beds available at other hospitals,” she said. aren’t. A lot of families including couples and their requiring hospital admission. has been hard hit by death, severe illness, and “We are seeing a fairly young cohort, some with no children are being infected,” she said. There appears to be a disproportionately higher Can unprecedented number of infections which continue underlying conditions, who are becoming seriously ill. At the time of going to print, Hatzolah had 501 active number of cases within the community, with doctors to rise daily during the third wave of the COVID-19 The variants are more virulent and transmissible. We patients with 64 patients requiring oxygen at home. putting this down to complacency and carelessness pandemic. have had quite a lot of patients who have had COVID-19 At least 11.7% of the active cases include children and about observing protocols. “This is extremely severe,” warned Dr Richard before or who have received the vaccine, and got it.” young adults under the age of 20. “There is more testing, but people aren’t following the Friedland, the chief executive of Netcare Group. “In “We treat more aggressively, but there’s still no “There are a higher number of younger people rules,” said Meyberg, “People who have been vaccinated Gauteng, we are in the eye of the storm, with things set magic drug. We’re doing everything we can to turn the including children than in the previous waves,” said are becoming lax, and there is a large asymptomatic to get a lot worse than they are. infammatory response around. It takes some longer Dr Anton Meyberg of Netcare Linksfeld Hospital. spread of the virus.” “We should all be doing what The country technically entered we can to prevent a single death, its third wave on Thursday, 10 to prevent people from having to The youth are our future June. According to the Ministerial be admitted to hospital,” he said. Advisory Committee on COVID-19, The death rate has risen at a new wave starts when the hospitals, and hospital stays are seven-day moving average of new about 20% longer, exacerbating infections surpasses 30% of the the shortage of beds, especially previous wave. in Gauteng, which is leading the More than 70% of the new uptick in infections. cases are now in Gauteng and “As I walk through our COVID-19 the Western Cape, where there units, I see people struggling to Ilan Ossendryver Photo: is evidence of a resurgence after breathe, fghting to survive this a period of recovery, and there shocking pandemic. Every day, are daily increases in the Eastern we are reminded of the pain, the Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. suffering, and the enormous loss According to experts, the next that it brings,” Friedland said. two weeks will be particularly Issuing a plea to the community severe in Gauteng as the numbers to be hyper vigilant, he said, “I want steadily increase. Cape Town is a to be abundantly clear that there few weeks behind, they say. can be no place for a lackadaisical Private-sector hospital approach.” admissions have increased four- Several doctors this week told the fold since April. More than 500 SA Jewish Report that the situation patients are being admitted a day was dire, with one doctor describing in the private sector in Gauteng, it as a “battlefeld”. which is putting enormous strain “Patients, some quite young with on emergency departments no comorbidities, are really sick, fghting to open as many beds as with the vast majority on one form See pages 10 and 11 possible to make space. of ventilation or another,” said Dr Continued on page 2>> f • 2 SA JEWISH REPORT Brie • Wo 17 – 24 June 2021 in rld s N w e e w N d s l i r n o B W r i • e Silicon Valley tech stands against antisemitism Swastika discovered on ark at Haaretz, which frst broke the story of f • • f e • Heads of some of Silicon Valley’s most recognised Frankfurt Airport shul i the harassment allegations, reported r W B o n r technology companies including Google, Twitter, A swastika was found scrawled on the ark i on 14 June that the confederation’s l d s N w e e and YouTube are among about 200 technology and at a synagogue at Frankfurt International w chairperson, David Yaari, notifed the World N s d l i r n o B W r i • e f business leaders who have signed a letter calling Airport in Germany on 11 June, according to • Zionist Organization of Lipman’s departure out antisemitism. the German publication Bild. It’s unclear when the last month after the allegations were made The signatories include former Twitter Chief Wikimedia Commons Photo: swastika was drawn as the synagogue has been closed for public. Executive Dick Costolo, media mogul Ariana several months due to the pandemic. “Given the grave allegations against former MK Dov Huffington, current Google executives, and chief A German organisation of Orthodox rabbis condemned Lipman, it was decided to part ways in order to focus on executives at Bay Area start-ups. the vandalism at the airport. CUZ’s vital work within the global Zionist forum,” Yaari “To be too Jewish in America, or to be a “It’s simply sad. This hatred of Jews must fnally stop,” told Haaretz. Jew, is still a dangerous mark,” the statement the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference said, according Lipman, who is from the Washington DC area, is a says. “As business leaders, we have a collective Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California to Associated Press. “The ugly grimace of antisemitism former Knesset member from the Yesh Atid party. responsibility to stand up for the society we want. According to Jewish Insider, the statement’s doesn’t stop even in a highly secured area, at a place of He denied that he had been fred, saying he had left Today, we stand against antisemitism and violence primary author is Jordana Stein, the chief encounter, silence, and stopping, where people from all of his own accord to devote more time to helping new against Jews. This is true regardless of your views executive of Enrich, a private network for industry over the world meet briefy while travelling and are in immigrants to Israel settle and assimilate. on Israel; this is about protecting people from the professionals. Signatories also include cultural transit.” Lipman has denied the harassment allegations, which injustice of antisemitism and hatred.” and business figures, such as makeup artist Bobbi The swastika was discovered less than a week after a frst arose on a private Facebook page. He has sued the “Too few Americans acknowledge that Brown, former NBA player Baron Davis, and Neil fre was set outside a synagogue in Ulm, about 70 miles two women making the accusations, and they have antisemitism exists [and] events of recent weeks Blumenthal, co-chief executive of the glasses (112km) northwest of Munich, in what police suspect was countersued. cannot hide the truth,” the letter says, describing company Warby Parker. an attempted arson attack. The two women, like Lipman, are members of the the incident in Los Angeles in which Jewish diners The letter comes as the tech industry grapples modern Orthodox community in Beit Shemesh, a city were attacked with bottles at a sushi restaurant. with antisemitism in its own ranks. Antisemitic Zionist group ousts rabbi over harassment near Jerusalem. They said the harassment occurred The incident is being investigated as an antisemitic comments made by Google’s diversity head, allegation when they and Lipman were part of a movement to push hate crime. Kamau Bobb, were found this month in a 2007 The World Confederation of United Zionists (CUZ), one of back against Haredi Orthodox harassment of modern blog post in which he said that Jews have “an several groupings within the World Zionist Organization, Orthodox women and girls in the city over modesty and Shabbat times this week insatiable appetite for war and killing”. The has let go its secretary-general, American-born Rabbi Dov other perceived religious infractions. company later moved Bobb off the diversity Lipman, citing his dispute with two women who say he Starts Ends position. sexually harassed them. • All briefs supplied by JTA 17:06 17:58 Johannesburg 17:27 18:22 Cape Town 16:46 17:39 Durban ‘Wake up!’ say doctors, as third wave ramps up 17:07 18:00 Bloemfontein >>Continued from page 1 16:58 17:53 Port Elizabeth 16:51 17:46 East London According to Hatzolah Chairperson Lance Abramson, Hatzolah has had 238 patients on the programme who of which 526 are in intensive-care, and 275 require there were 263 active cases at the peak of the frst wave, have had a vaccine.