{"id":413671,"date":"2020-07-06T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=413671"},"modified":"2020-07-06T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:40:33","slug":"this-list-ranks-the-risk-of-catching-covid-19-from-a-range-of-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/413671\/this-list-ranks-the-risk-of-catching-covid-19-from-a-range-of-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"This list ranks the risk of catching Covid-19 from a range of activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The Texas Medical Association (TMA) has published a list ranking the risk of infection with Covid-19 for a wide range of activities, including going to a bar, attending school, or working out at the gym.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texmed\/status\/1279046501054980096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list<\/a> ranks activities on a scale of 1 to 10, reflecting how risky they are in terms of exposure to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">This list has been ranked by physician experts from the TMA Covid-19 Task Force, and the TMA Committee on Infectious Diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It comes as South Africa continues to relax its lockdown laws, despite a surge in Covid-19 cases, including allowing more pupils to return to schools, and opening up restaurants to sit-down patrons.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is approaching yet another unwanted milestone regarding, Covid-19, after health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize announced on Sunday evening, that there are now 196,750 total cases of coronavirus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This is an increase of 8,773 cases from the 187,977 cases reported on Saturday \u2013 which saw a new 24-hour high for the country of 10,853 cases.<\/p>\n<p>The minister announced 173 new Covid-19 related deaths, taking the total to 3,199 casualties and 93,315 recoveries to date.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TexasMed-e1594015218606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-413675\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TexasMed-e1594015218606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/413537\/gauteng-government-asks-for-new-hard-lockdown-heres-what-they-want-to-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gauteng government asks for new \u2018hard lockdown\u2019 \u2013 here\u2019s what they want to change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Medical Association (TMA) has published a list ranking the risk of infection with Covid-19 for a wide range of activities, including going to a bar, attending school, or working out at the gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":384315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,15071],"class_list":["post-413671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-texas-medical-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413733,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413671\/revisions\/413733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}