Covid-19 News
Lancet, Ampath agree to reduce Covid-19 PCR test cost to R500
By: News24Wire 12th December 2021 South Africa's two biggest private laboratories agreed to reduce the price of the Covid-19 PCR test from R850 to R500, with smaller laboratories... →
Ramaphosa 'studying' SIU's PPE graft report
By: News24Wire 12th December 2021 President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report on corruption in the procurement of Covid-19 personal protective... →
Covid-19: Omicron accounts for 70% of samples, fast overtaking Delta 
By: News24Wire 10th December 2021 Up to 70% of sampled Covid-19 cases in the last month were as a result of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. In a digital briefing on Friday,... →
UK Omicron spread may be faster than in South Africa
By: Bloomberg 10th December 2021 The omicron strain may be spreading faster in England than in South Africa, with UK cases of the variant possibly topping 60 000 a day by... →
Kenya's Covid-19 vaccine drive gets a boost
By: Reuters 10th December 2021 Now that rich nations are sharing more Covid-19 shots with Africa, health officials across the continent are scrambling to overcome vaccine... →
Covid-19 exposed inequality in access to social economic right – SAHRC
By: Thabi Shomolekae 10th December 2021 South African Human Rights Commission chairperson Bongani Majola on Friday explained that the coronavirus pandemic presented new challenges and... →
South Africa says no signal of increased Omicron severity yet
By: Reuters 10th December 2021 South African scientists see no sign that the Omicron coronavirus variant is causing more severe illness, they said on Friday, as officials... →
South Africa to offer vaccine boosters as Omicron spreads
By: Reuters 10th December 2021 South Africa will offer booster doses of the Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines as the Omicron coronavirus variant drives daily... →
Covid-19: New daily infections pass 20 000 mark, 22 new deaths recorded
By: News24Wire 10th December 2021 South Africa's daily Covid-19 infections have surpassed 20 000, with more than half of the new cases recorded in Gauteng. This comes as the number... →
'I'm really humbled': SA scientist to lead WHO research into Covid-19 origins
By: News24Wire 9th December 2021 A South African will head up a world body investigating the origins of Covid-19. University of Pretoria researcher Professor Marietjie Venter has... →
Anti-corruption webinar urges investigative transparency to improve public confidence in State
By: Thabi Shomolekae 9th December 2021 Accountability Now Trustee Ghalib Galant said on Thursday that transparency and reporting more regularly about the state of investigations are... →
