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    Circuit breakers the mini lockdown needed for hotspots
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Circuit breakers form part of five-point plan from the department of health that Premier Alan Winde be presented to the provincial cabinet on Tuesday for adoption. Professor Burtram Fielding, molecular biologist and Director of Research Development at UWC will explain what are circuit breakers and how they could help ease off the rise of infections in hotspots.
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    COVID-19 schools of thought
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Interview with Prof Bertram C. Fielding.
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    Spektrum 10 Desember 2020
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Die Minister van Gesondheid, dr. Zweli Mkhize, sê Suid-Afrika ondervind amptelik sy tweede vlaag van COVID-19-infeksies. Ons het by ‘n kenner gaan hoor wat dit inhou in die onmiddelike stryd teen die virus. Die DA pronk oor sy bydraes in die parlement in 2020, maar wat dink kiesers van die party? Ons praat met 'n ontleder oor gister se tussenverkiesings. Daar is diegene wat meen die nuwe lugredery, Lift, 'n dapper stap doen om in hierdie ekonomiese tye sy toetrede tot die plaaslike lugvaartbedryf te maak. Lugvaartekonoom Joachim Vermooten meen egter dis 'n sinvolle stap.
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    UWC Prof Burtram Fielding
    (SABC, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Radio interview with Prof Burtram C. Fielding Radio Sonder Grense (RSG)
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    What the latest coronavirus tells us about emerging new infections
    (The Conversation Africa, 2020) Fielding, Burtram C.
    Viruses are quick studies. They’re prolific at adapting to new environments and infecting new hosts. As a result they are able to jump the species divide from animals to humans – as the new coronavirus in China is showing. It’s estimated that 89% of one particular family of viruses, known as RNA viruses, are zoonotic in origin. This means that they started in animals and have since become established among humans. RNA viruses are notorious for being able to mutate in a range of environments. This family of viruses includes everything from Ebola and West Nile Fever to measles and the common cold. The Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (or SARS-CoV) that broke out in Asia in 2003 is also an RNA virus; so too is the significantly more virulent and fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV), first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Both are zoonotic. SARS-CoV is believed – although it’s never been confirmed – to have originated in bats. Infected dromedary camels are thought to have been the source for MERS-CoV.