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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to receive samples of COVID-19 suspected cases and has been following up on all possible leads to track down COVID-19 cases reported in the country. We confirm that, as of 14 March 2020, 14 new imported COVID-19 cases have […]

There has been an increase in the number of imported COVID-19 cases in South Africa since the first confirmed case. The identification of additional imported cases of COVID-19 is not unexpected and is likely related to increasing numbers of cases in other parts of the world, leading to increased importation risks. The National Institute for

As of 12 March 2020, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), confirms that 3  new positive cases have been identified. This takes the number of coronavirus positive patients to 16.  The new positive cases comprise of a  38-year-old male from Turkey who is visiting his

The Minister of Health wishes to inform the public that 6 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed. This takes the total number of coronavirus positive patients in South Africa to 13. Gauteng Cases: 4 A 33 year old female who had travelled to Italy and returned on the 1st of March 2020. A couple,

Fellow South Africans, an announcement was made yesterday confirming the second case of COVID-19 in South Africa. In that statement, we indicated that the second patient is a direct contact of the first. We further indicated that they were a group of 10 people who had travelled to Italy. We confirm that we traced all

The Minister of Health wishes to advise all South Africans that a second case of COVID-19 has now been confirmed in South Africa. The 39 year old lady who is from Gauteng is a direct contact to the first case from KwaZulu-Natal. She was part of the group of 10 that had travelled to Italy.

The Minister of Health, on 05 March 2020, made an official announcement of a local confirmed COVID-19 case in South Africa, of a 38-year old man from KwaZulu-Natal who travelled to Italy.  The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, wishes to clarify that the COVID-19 indicates the

Fellow South Africans This morning, Thursday March 5, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive. The patient is a 38-year-old male who travelled to Italy with his wife. They were part of a group of 10 people and they arrived back in South Africa on March

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, notes rumours circulating on social media, particularly on WhatsApp about a positive COVID-19 case in South Africa.  We wish to assure the public that the rumours are false and in the event of a confirmed COVID-19 case, the Minister of

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, as of 03 March 2020, has tested a total of 164 for SARS-CoV-2 wherein 118 have met the case definition for persons under investigation (PUI) and all tests have come back negative. The NICD confirms that South Africa has not