With the national state of disaster expected to run its course in March, South Africa has recorded 2,489 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. This increase represents a 7.6% positivity rate. Gauteng continues to drive South Africa’s daily infection numbers, accounting for 38% of the latest caseload.[…]
Two years into the pandemic, concerns around the effect of masks on the linguistic, emotional and social development of children are taking centre stage. In the United States, calls to lift mask mandates at school have multiplied in recent weeks, including within the scientific community, at a time when new[…]
LOCAL The National Institute for Communicable Diseases recorded 9,828 new Covid-19 cases in its latest 24-hour report. This represents a 26.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases were from the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal with 26% each, followed by Gauteng with 17%. The Eastern Cape reported 12% of the[…]
The Health Department said that discussions were ongoing on the Pfizer booster shots. Booster doses for adults who received the two-dose Pfizer vaccine have been approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra). The department’s acting Director-General Dr Nicholas Crisp said that the interval that had been approved[…]
The COVID-19 infection rate remains high with 20,713 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, representing a 30.4% positivity rate in a day. This pushes our known caseload to more than 3,276,000 positive cases. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases said a further 35 COVID-19 related deaths were reported,[…]
The World Health Organization has designated the new Coronavirus strain first detected here in South Africa as a “variant of concern”, prompting countries around the world to impose travel restrictions amid fears over its potential spread. The Health Organisation’s advisory panel said early evidence shows the new b.1.1529 variant, which[…]
Pfizer said on Friday that a clinical trial of its pill to treat COVID-19 had shown it is highly effective, hailing it is as a big step toward ending the pandemic. A simple pill to treat the coronavirus at home has been sought since the start of the global health[…]
South Africa recorded 339 new Covid-19 cases and 44 deaths on Friday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has said. “Today the institute reports 339 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 923 393. This increase[…]
South Africa’s Covid-19 cases remain relatively low with a positivity rate of one percent. This comes after 319 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours. KwaZulu-Natal reported most of the cases, followed by Gauteng and the Free State. Unfortunately, 31 people died in the last reporting period due[…]
South Africa has surpassed the milestone of 20 million vaccinations administered in the fight against COVID-19. The country has continued to rollout over 200,000 vaccines daily boosting the number of inoculations across the country. South Africa’s far-reaching effort to vaccinate its vast population against COVID-19 has hit another milestone. Over[…]
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