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LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (7 December 2021)

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa. Today the institute reports 13 147 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases […]

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LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (6 DECEMBER 2021)

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa. Today the institute reports 6 381 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases

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Limit the risk of COVID-19 transmission by avoiding super spreader events

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to monitor developments around the newly emerged Omicron variant. “The number of new COVID-19 cases and the percent positivity continue to increase, likely due to spread of the Omicron variant. At this stage, scientists are trying to establish if

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Frequently asked questions for the B.1.1.529 mutated SARS-CoV-2 lineage in South Africa

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The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA, www.ngs-sa.org), which includes the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), KRISP at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), University of Cape Town (UCT), Stellenbosch University (SUN), the University of the Free State (UFS), the University of Pretoria, the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) and the National Health

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New COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, confirms that through collaborative efforts with private laboratories and the NGS-SA members, a new COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, has been detected in South Africa. Twenty-two positive cases of variant B.1.1.529 have been recorded in the country following genomic sequencing collaborations between

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Increase in human rabies cases in South Africa (24 November 2021)

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In October and November 2021, six cases of human rabies were confirmed from the Eastern Cape (n=4), Kwa-Zulu Natal (n=1) and Limpopo (n=1) provinces. In addition, several suspected cases from these areas are under investigation at the time of this report. As of 23 November 2021, a total of seventeen laboratory-confirmed human rabies cases have

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LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (20 November 2021)

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa. Today the institute reports 887 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to

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LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (17 November 2021)

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa. Today the institute reports 566 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to

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Cough Check

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What is Cough Check? Cough Check is a Self-swabbing Pilot Study, which aims to come to patient’s homes and give them the chance to test themselves. Patients will be given a ‘swab’ which looks like a cotton swab or Q-Tip but thinner with a longer plastic stick. They are given instructions on how to perform

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