Israel set up rapid coronavirus testing stations across the country on Sunday, the Magen David Adom emergency service said, as the government tries to stave off another pandemic lockdown. “Following a request from the Ministry of Health, Magen David Adom on Sunday opened 120 rapid detection stations,” an MDA statement[…]
There are growing calls for residents in the Western Cape to adhere to lockdown regulations this long weekend. This comes as the province hit its peak of the COVID-19 third wave this week. With over 41, 000 infections, the Cape accounts for more than a quarter of the nation’s active[…]
One hundred and ninety more people have died in this country after contracting the coronavirus. These latest fatalities recorded over the past day have pushed our national death toll to 74,813. The Health Department said the country also racked up just over 10,000 new infections with our caseload since the[…]
NATIONAL Newly-appointed Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says he’s confident that approving the use of the Sinovac vaccine will accelerate government’s vaccine roll out. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) approved the use of the vaccine last month. The vaccine will be used to innoculate those who are aged 18 and[…]
NATIONAL Most Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital still have symptoms a month later, according to SA’s first study of “long Covid”. Fatigue was reported by more than two-thirds of the 1,448 people in the study published this week in a National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) bulletin. A quarter of[…]
NATIONAL The Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal both accounted for more new Covid-19 cases than Gauteng in the past 24 hours, a clear indication of the current coronavirus trajectory across SA. While cases are on the decline in Gauteng, the two coastal provinces were showing a worrying upward trend. There were[…]
The number of COVID-19 infections recorded worldwide passed 200 million on Thursday, an AFP count showed, as the pandemic surges around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where the Australian city of Melbourne locked down again. The highly contagious Delta variant has driven the virus to return with a[…]
The country continues to feel the devastating burden of the COVID-19 third wave, with 458 more deaths recorded over the past 24-hour cycle. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, these fatalities have pushed our death toll since the start of the pandemic to 73,873. This brings into sharp[…]
NATIONAL Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says she is concerned about the progress that’s being made at schools since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Motshekga is visiting some schools in Bloemfontein on Thursday to assess teaching and learning. She says that only around 30% of the current[…]
Seven out of ten South Africans have little or no trust in government’s ability to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe. This is the finding of the latest “Afrobarometer” survey which was conducted by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. According to the survey, close to half of the participants believe[…]
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