Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has expressed concern over the clusters of coronavirus infections in the Western Cape. The province has 7235 cases and 128 deaths. South Africa’s death toll from COVID19-related complications now stands at 238 after the virus claimed the lives of another 19 people. The number of infections has risen by 665 to 12739. 5676 people have recovered. Mkhize says South Africans must continue to adhere to […]
Government interventions, including the travel ban and lockdown, have potentially averted at least 20 000 deaths, says a top scientist. Professor Tulio de Oliviera, a bioinformatician and director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (Krisp) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said the basic reproductive number of the infection had also slowed from three to one in most of the country. De Oliveira and his team at Krisp have […]
A 51-year-old man from Bo-Kaap has passed away due to the coronavirus. Mogammat Cassiem Harris, a dialysis patient, started showing symptoms of the virus on Saturday. His family believe he may have contracted the virus at the hospital, where he went for dialysis treatment last Thursday. They said the only time he left home was to go for his treatment. The deceased man's brother in law says they are devastated […]
Saudi has installed “advanced self-sterilisation gates” at the entrances of the grand mosques in Makkah and Madinah in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. According to Saudi24, the move is part of the government’s “Together Guarded” initiative which has seen precautionary measures put in place since the pandemic hit the kingdom’s shores. The General Presidency for the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque inaugurated the advanced self-sterilising […]
More than 100 South African doctors who studied overseas are in limbo because the country's presiding medical board is allegedly preventing them from writing an exam that would allow them to practise in their home country. As South Africa's fight against Covid-19 intensifies, News24 can reveal that a group of qualified and trained doctors are sitting at home without work. They have turned to the courts in the hope of […]
South Africa’s coronavirus infection now stands at 7808, just 192 new infections shy of reaching 8 000. An increase of 236 in the last 24-hour-period, while 11 315 tests were done in the same period. The Western Cape remains the epicentre of the pandemic with 3 760 followed by Gauteng with 1 720. The death toll has also increased after five new deaths were recorded bringing the total number of […]
Turkey, at the personal behest of their president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has sent a container load of medical supplies to counter the current Covid-19 pandemic as local fatalities edge past 100. Earlier this week, the Turkish Co-operation and Co-ordination Agency (TIKA) distributed 10,000 N95 medical masks to the Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. Included in the recent aid package are PPE suits and vital equipment, as well as a disinfectant […]
With South Africans four weeks into the national lockdown implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19, 41 congregants were arrested at the weekend in separate parts of the country for apparently disobeying lockdown regulations. On Saturday, in a video that has gone viral, police intruded on a group of Muslim congregants that had gathered to pray in Mpumalanga, while 17 worshippers were handcuffed inside a building in Pretoria west on […]
South Africa recorded its biggest daily spike in Covid-19 infections on Thursday, with 318 new cases and 10 more deaths being recorded. According to a statement by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, the number of positive cases had increased to 3 953, while the death toll rose to 75. The increase in cases, which he said was concerning, is the result of the intensified community and screening campaign that is taking […]
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.
