A further 25 people have died due to COVID-19 complications in the past 24 hours in South Africa, bringing the death toll to 88,587. 619 new infections have been recorded in the same period which brings the total number of cases since the start of the outbreak in South Africa to 2,916,179. Most of the new cases are from the Western Cape at 21%, followed by KwaZulu-Natal at 19% and […]
US fatalities from COVID-19 surpassed 700,000 on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to the population of the nation's capital Washington. The grim threshold comes with an average of well over 1,000 dying each day, in a country where 55.7% of the population is now fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After a heavily criticised early response to the […]
The number of COVID-19 infections recorded worldwide passed 200 million on Thursday, an AFP count showed, as the pandemic surges around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where the Australian city of Melbourne locked down again. The highly contagious Delta variant has driven the virus to return with a vengeance, the number of daily cases recorded worldwide rising by 68% since mid-June. But as more of the world gets […]
South Africa has recorded 450 more COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, which has pushed the country’s death toll to 60, 075. The health department also reported that 13,719 new COVID cases were recorded in the same 24 hours, edging the total number of infections in the country to 2,356,049 cases. South Africa currently has 153,778 active COVID -19 cases. The recovery rate stands at 90,5% - translating […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
