COVID-19 Update
19 March , 2020 Following the expansion of national-wide routine testing for SARS-CoV-2 in public and private laboratories, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, will start [...]
COVID-19 Update
18 March , 2020 Since the activation of the first COVID-19 public hotline number, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, has recorded high call volumes from [...]
COVID-19 Update
17 March , 2020 COVID-19 cases in South Africa continue to rise, with private and public laboratories now fully equipped to test for SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen for COVID-19. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases [...]
COVID-19 Update
16 March , 2020 Following the declaration of a National Disaster for COVID-19 in South Africa by President Cyril Ramaphosa, the National Institute for Communicable (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), [...]
COVID-19 Update
15 March , 2020 While we continue to see an increase in COVID-19 positive cases in South Africa, there is currently no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 is circulating in South Africa’s population; however, the [...]