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Wits University students and engineers are producing face shields and devices to assist patients with breathing in hospitals as the country battles the outbreak of COVID19SA. sabcnews

The university says they produced the first few hundred face shields which were delivered to hospitals in Johannesburg last week.

The Health Department also confirmed yet another two deaths related to COVID-19. This takes the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in South Africa to 11. Wits spokesperson, Shirona Patel says the university wants to take the project up to scale, however more funding will be required.

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China masks fall. Excellent work Wits

I told you we have potentials and capabilities, we need to up the games.

Problem of South Africans they always complain. Sometimes we need to support efforts from other people. That's great initiation wits. Keep it up and all the best

Goodluck

Good, self sufficient is the only solution WitsUniversity, we mustn't beg for donations from USA or Europe for something that we can make here at home.

Why was this not done all along?This is the reason China colonized most countries cause we kept on importing stuffs we can actually manufacture here at home! This is the kind of move we need to make in order to deal with unemployment. Denel is doing the same now with ventilators

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