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 [...]
COVID-19 Update
14 March , 2020 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 [...]
COVID-19 Update
13 March , 2020 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 [...]