South Africa and the world at large are faced with a devastating crisis and the growing pandemic associated with COVID-19 disease While South Africa is still dealing with other health challenges namely TB and HIV, an added burden of infection with the novel SARS-CoV-2, namely severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, is adding to our challenges This zoonotic infection has its origins in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China and causes a severe form of pneumonia which has proven fatal in some patients These clusters of pneumonia was described on the 31 of December 2019 by the World Health organization (WHO) and the viral aetiology identified in February 2020
Management of obstetric patients with COVID-19