South African healthcare workers celebrate drop
After fighting the virus for a year, healthcare workers in South Africa are breathing a cautious relief as cases across the country fall. Although they have reason to celebrate, medical staff are worried about a likely imminent wave of infections in the coming months.
"We are relieved now because the number is down and the patients are no longer so sick," nurse Constance Mathibela told Agence France-Presse (AFP) at Thembisa Hospital, in a township east of Johannesburg.
After the epidemic struck, the…