Covid-19 Business Watch
WATCH: On the Covid-19 frontline — the alcohol ban
Michael Avery talks to a panel about the ban on alcohol sales amid the pandemic
31 July 2020 - 17:09
Few issues have stirred as much heated and emotive debate than the banning of the sale of alcohol. Michael Avery speaks to award-winning Dr Glenda Gray, Wits professor of paediatrics, SA Medical Research Council president and member of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee; and Prof Charles Parry, director of alcohol, tobacco and other drug research unit at the SA Medical Research Council, about the science behind the ban and the economic damage it has caused.
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