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LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (14 MAY 2021)

As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa is 1 608 393.   Province Total cases for 14 May 2021 Percentage total Eastern Cape 196497 12,2 Free State 93836 5,8 Gauteng 432810 26,9 KwaZulu-Natal 337824 21,0 Limpopo 64371 4,0 Mpumalanga 79693 5,0 North West 70413 4,4 Northern Cape 43593 2,7

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COVID-19 UPDATE: NEW VARIANTS DETECTED IN SOUTH AFRICA

MEDIA STATEMENT The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, have sequenced COVID-19 specimens from individuals with a recent travel history to India. The institute can confirm that five of the specimens tested positive for B.1.617.2 (three cases from Gauteng and two from KwaZulu-Natal). The B.1.617.2 variant is

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COVID-19 VARIANT IN INDIA

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to monitor COVID-19 trends both nationally and abroad. India has recently made headlines, following a resurgence of COVID-19 cases attributed in part to circulation of different variants, including the B.1.617 coronavirus variant. “The institution has tremendous empathy for the

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Prof Nelesh Govender reaches a career highlight

Congratulations are in order for Prof Nelesh Govender who was recently promoted to Professor in the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Govender began his career in public health 15 years ago when was the appointed head of the Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses Surveillance (GERMS) at the National

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