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South Africans returning from Wuhan to be confined in Polokwane – Mkhize

South Africans being repatriated from Wuhan, China, will be kept in isolation for between 14 and 21 days, with soldiers and the army patrolling the perimeter of a special quarantine facility in Limpopo, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday. He described Wuhan as being "awash" with the Coronavirus during the late night media briefing. The returnees would not be allowed to have contact with their families until a fortnight […]

13 March 2020

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MJC unpacks consequences of COVID19 for Muslims

By Aneeqa Du Plessis Darul Islam High school hall was filled with various Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) senior ulema, shuyookh, school principals, madaris, hifth teachers and other Islamic organisations who gathered on Wednesday to be briefed by medical professionals and alims on a collective response and way forward in dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus. The information session concentrated on the Islamic jurisprudential aspects relevant to how the Muslim community […]

12 March 2020

International News

Coronavirus officially a pandemic: WHO

The coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic, the World Health Organization declared, urging governments to step up containment efforts as the number of worldwide cases topped 120,000 and deaths exceeded 4,300. The United Nations body had previously stopped short of such a designation as the illness spread from China, with major outbreaks in South Korea, Iran and Italy, where deaths due to the virus surged past 800 on Wednesday. The […]

12 March 2020

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SA COVID19 cases stands at 17

South Africa now has 17 confirmed cases of COVID-19, after four additional patients tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday. A 38-year man from Durban who lives in Turkey and was visiting his family in South Africa has tested positive. He had travelled to the UK and returned to SA on the 7th March. A 27-year-old female from Mpumalanga who had travelled to the United States returned to South Africa […]

12 March 2020

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6 new COVID19 cases in SA

The number of coronavirus cases in South Africa is slowly climbing, with six new cases confirmed on Wednesday, including the first positive case in the Western Cape. This takes the total number of coronavirus positive patients in South Africa to 13. Western Cape A 36-year-old male who had travelled to multiple countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Turkey. He returned to South Africa on the 9th of March 2020. Addressing […]

11 March 2020

COVID19

South Africans returning from Wuhan to be confined in Polokwane – Mkhize

MJC unpacks consequences of COVID19 for Muslims

Coronavirus officially a pandemic: WHO

SA COVID19 cases stands at 17

6 new COVID19 cases in SA

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