Fri 06 May 2022: South Africa has recorded 9757 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 818 125. According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a 25.9% positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng, which accounts for 44%, […]
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Thu 05 May 2022: The Department of Health says it would like to bring to the public’s attention an error in a media statement issued on Wednesday regarding the removal of face mask wearing by children at school. “The department would also like to bring to the public attention of the confusion created by unfortunate […]
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Thu 05 May 2022: South Africa has recorded 6 170 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 808 368. The increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate. The Department of Health has reported 30 deaths and of these, two occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This, according to the […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: A pair of new omicron subvariants has emerged, raising the possibility that survivors of earlier omicron strains can get reinfected. BA.4 and BA.5 have gained increasing attention in South Africa as weekly coronavirus cases tripled in the last two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. “It really came out of the blue over the weekend. We were […]
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Tue 03 May 2022: Danish health officials say that 1.1 million excess COVID-19 vaccines will be discarded in the coming weeks because their expiration date is near, and efforts to donate them to developing countries have failed. Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a government agency that maps the spread of infectious diseases including COVID-19 in Denmark, […]
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Mon 02 May 2022: No one can be forced to take the vaccine, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision on India’s Covid vaccine policy, also directing the central government to publish reports on the adverse effects of vaccination. “Bodily integrity is protected under the law and nobody can be forced to be […]
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Sat 30 April 2022: The unthinkable just a few months ago has already occurred: a country has stopped its program of vaccination against COVID-19 due to the low infection rate throughout the last few weeks. Denmark, with this decision, becomes the first country in the world to pause its vaccination plan. “Spring has arrived, vaccine coverage in the Danish population is high, and the epidemic […]
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Sat 30 April 2022: Pfizer said Friday that results from a study, which evaluated the Paxlovid for post-exposure preventive use, were not statistically significant. The primary endpoint of reducing the risk of confirmed and symptomatic Covid-19 infection in adults who had been exposed to the virus through a household contact was not met in the study. The analysis evaluated data […]
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Fri 29 April 2022: According to Reuters calculations based on new data from the Rosstat state statistics department, Russia’s overall number of COVID-related deaths has surpassed 803,000 since the pandemic began in April 2020. In March, 35,584 persons died from COVID-19 or linked causes, down from 43,543 in February, according to Rosstat. Reuters calculations also […]
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Fri 29 April 2022: Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, says while the country is still at great risk of COVID-19, government is observing the daily new infections and remains on high alert. Phaahla said the next seven days until 6 May will give an indication as to whether the 5th wave of the pandemic has started. […]
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