Author name: Koketso Matjane

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. The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today the institute reports 3 286 new COVID-19 cases that […]

The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today the institute 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 9.3% positivity rate. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),

The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today the institute 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 9.6% positivity rate. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases

The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today the institute 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 a 8.4% positivity rate. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases

The current surge in COVID-19 infections seems to be showing signs of a sustained downward trend. Today the institute reports 2 640 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 860 835. This increase represents a 10.4% positivity rate. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases