Covid-19
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 11,535 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,988,148. This increase represents a 22.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (72%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 8,561 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,976,613. This increase represents a 16.5% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (72%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 4,373 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,968,052. This increase represents a 10.2% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (72%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 3,220 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,958,548. This increase represents a 9.2% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (82%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 2,465 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,952,500. This increase represents a 6.5% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (79%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 1,275 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,950,035. This increase represents a 3.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (80%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 868 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,948,760. This increase represents a 2.1% positivity rate. NICD said that there were 605 new cases in Gauteng in…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Health minister Joe Phaahla says that the country is seeing a rise in Covid-19 infections, but that health officials will not move to introduce stricter lockdown restrictions at the moment. Phaahla told eNCA that current forecasts show a fourth Covid-19 wave is likely to hit South Africa…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 687 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,929,862. This increase represents a 3.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (79%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 887 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 929 175. This increase represents a 2.8% positivity rate. NICD said a further 10 COVID-19 related deaths have…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 789 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,928,288. This increase represents a 2.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (509), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 566 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 926 914. This increase represents a 1.6% positivity rate. NICD said a further 11 COVID-19 related deaths have been…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 306 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,925,677. This increase represents a 1.1% positivity rate. NICD said a further 7 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 305 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,924,622. This increase represents a 0.9% positivity rate. NICD said a further 48 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. South Africa has recorded a total of 89,319 Covid-19 related deaths, with 24 new deaths reported in the past 24 hours. NICD reports 358 new Covid-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 923 751. This increase…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), 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 represents a 1.1% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 344 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 922 735. This increase represents a 1.3% positivity rate. NICD said a further 23 COVID-19 related deaths have been…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 169 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 922 391. This increase represents a 0.8% positivity rate. NICD said a further 18 COVID-19 related deaths have been…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 106 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 922 222. This increase represents a 0.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 230 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,922,116. This increase represents a 1.2% positivity rate. NICD said a further 14 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 475 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,921,589. This increase represents a 1.7% positivity rate. NICD said a further 47 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 533 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,921,114. This increase represents a 1.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (28%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 472 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,920,581. This increase represents a 1.4% positivity rate. NICD said a further 62 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported,…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 146 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,919,778. This increase represents a 1.0% positivity rate. NICD said a further 9 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 300 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 919 632. This increase represents a 1.4% positivity rate. NICD said a further 11 COVID-19 related deaths have been…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 449 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 919 332. This increase represents a 1.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (20%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 517 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 918 883. This increase represents a 1.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 520 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 918 366. This increase represents a 1.6% positivity rate. NICD said a a further 81 COVID-19 related deaths…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 591 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 917 846. This increase represents a 1.7% positivity rate. NICD said a further 80 COVID-19 related deaths have been…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 453 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 917 255. This increase represents a 1.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (23%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 414 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,916,593. This increase represents a 1.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (22%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 619 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,916,179. This increase represents a 2.2% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (21%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 947 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,914,827. This increase represents a 2.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (25%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 942 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,913,880. This increase represents a 2.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (23%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 592 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,912,938. This increase represents a 2.1% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (22%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 201 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,912,346. This increase represents a 3.3% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 648 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 912 145. This increase represents a 2.9% positivity rate. NICD said a further 25 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 88…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 816 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 911 497. This increase represents a 2.8% positivity rate.\ The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (20%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 989 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 909 757. This increase represents a 2.9% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 1 149 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 908 768.This increase represents a 3.2% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 768 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 907 619. This increase represents a 2.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (25%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 809 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,906,422. This increase represents a 3.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (22%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 1,306 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,905,613. This increase represents a 4.0% positivity rate. reports 1,306 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa,…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 1,635 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,904,307. This increase represents a 4.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (25%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), 2,106 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,900,994. This increase represents a 4.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (30%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 1,367 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,898,888. This increase represents a 8.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (27%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 578 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 897 521. This increase represents a 3.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (22%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 967 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,896,943. This increase represents a 5.0% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. @Bloomberg. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 1,634 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,895,976. This increase represents a 6.6% positivity rate. Nationally we have exited the third wave according to the current…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 2,261 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,894,342. This increase represents a 6.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (21%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 2,783 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,892,081. This increase represents a 6.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (22%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says the national 7-day moving average of daily case numbers, positivity rate and testing rate continue to decrease, with sustained decreases seen in all provinces. Today the institute reports 2,967 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa,…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 2,197 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,886,331. This increase represents a 6.1% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (27%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 1,504 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,884,134. This increase represents a 7.0% positivity rate.…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 2 281 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 882 630. This increase represents a …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 3 286 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 880 349. This increase represents a …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 3 648 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 877 063. This increase represents a …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 4 215 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 873 415. This increase represents a …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 4 667 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 869 201. This increase represents a …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today the NICD reports 3 699 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 864 534. This increase represents…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today NICD reports 3 961 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 858 195. This increase represents an …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. NICD reports 5,309 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,854,234. This increase represents a 10.7% positivity rate. NICD…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. South Africa has recorded a total of 2.848,925 positive cases of Covid-19 as of Friday, with 5,885 new cases identified since the last report, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced. This increase, according to the institute, represents a 10.3% positivity rate. The country has…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. South Africa has recorded a total of 2.843,042 positive cases of cornavirus, with 6,270 new cases identified since the last report, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced. This increase represents a 12.0% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine cuts the risk of getting infected with the disease by about half, according to the latest results of a trial involving almost half a million health workers in South Africa. The vast majority of the breakthrough infections were mild, Glenda Gray, co-leader…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 5 372 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 829 435. This increase represents a 12.3% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 4 118 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 824 063.This increase represents a 14.0% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 5,931 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,819,945. This increase represents a 14.5% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (29%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 8,411 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,814,014. This increase represents a 15.5% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (30%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 9,199 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,805,604. This increase represents a 15.1% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (26%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) board chairperson, Professor Helen Reese, has assured South Africans that the authority is working to make sure that COVID-19 vaccines are effective against new variants. Reese was speaking during a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Health on Thursday.…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 9,544 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,787,203. This increase represents a 15.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Government is making every effort to reach population immunity and is investigating immunising children with the remaining vaccine stock once most adults are covered. "Just in the same way as when we were convinced that we have enough capacity and stock to cover the above 35. "Therefore,…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 5,644 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,770,575. This increase represents a 17.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (35%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. @123rf.com. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 7,740 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,764,931. This increase represents a 17.0% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (29%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 12,771 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,734,973. This increase represents a 19.3% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 13,251 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,722,202. This increase represents a 20% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (27%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. South Africa has recorded 2.708,951 positive cases of Covid-19, with 10, 346 cases recorded since the last report, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division responsible for the surveillance of Covid-19 in the country, announced on Tuesday. This, according to the institute, represents a 18.6% …
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 7,632 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,698,605. This increase represents a 20.2% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (33%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 10 748 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 690 973. This increase represents a 20.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 13 261 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 680 225. This increase represents a 20.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 13 672 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 652 652. This increase represents a 19.9% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 14 728 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 638 981. This increase represents a 22.1% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 10,685 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,624,254. This increase represents a 20.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from WC (26%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Health minister Dr Joe Phaahla says that the government plans to open Covid-19 vaccines to all adults in South Africa weeks earlier than expected. South Africa is officially set to open vaccinations to people between 18-35 from 1 September. However, Phaahla said his department was now in…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has authorised local biotechnology company CapeBio to manufacture rapid COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits. Announcing the approval of the test kits on Monday, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, said the COVID-19 test kits, co-developed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 10,139 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,605,586. This increase represents a 21% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%), followed by…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 13,021 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,595,447. This increase represents a 21.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (27%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 13,921 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,582,427. This increase represents a 23% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (28%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 14,271 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,568,511. This increase represents a 22.5% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (26%), followed…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 7,502 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,554,240. The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (26%), followed by Western Cape (23%). Gauteng Province accounted…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 6,590 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,546,762. This increase represents an 18.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from the Western Cape…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 6,787 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,540,222. This increase represents a 21.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from the Western Cape (29%),…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 10 008 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 533 466. This increase represents a 22.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 12 371 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 523 488. This increase represents a 21.6% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 13 652 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 511 178. This increase represents a 21.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The results of the Sisonke programme study have revealed that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has provided effective protection against serious illness and death from COVID-19 infection. This was on Friday revealed by Professor Glenda Gray, the CEO of the Medical Research Council and co-lead investigator, during…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 13 777 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 497 655. This increase represents a 22.3% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 13 263 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 484 009 This increase represents a 22.3% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western…
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),reports 8 988 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 470 746. This increase represents a 19.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases today are from Western…