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Cape Town community screening and testing for Covid-19 surpasses 70,000

The City of Cape Town's community screening and testing initiative for Covid-19 has surpassed the 70,000 mark in its fourth week, the council said on Tuesday. The screening areas are determined based on where positive cases have been identified or where a higher risk of infection exists. "The caseload in our metropole is the result of the proactive mass screening campaign, our ability to trace contacts of positive cases, but […]

today28 April 2020

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Four new coronavirus deaths as SA confirms 3,300 Covid-19 cases

With four new deaths since its last tally, South Africa's death toll now sits at 58, and with an increase of 142 new infections the latest confirmed Covid-19 cases is 3,300 the health department has said in its publication of figures for the virus spread across the country. But with 165 new recoveries nationally, the number of those who have survived the virus has increased to 1055. Gauteng still has […]

today21 April 2020

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10111 call centre in CT closed after 2 employees test positive for COVID-19

The 10111 emergency call centre in Maitland, Cape Town, was shut down on Wednesday afternoon after two employees tested positive for the coronavirus. National police spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said the call centre was closed at 16:00 after two members from separate shifts were confirmed to have contracted Covid-19. "All evacuation, screening and testing and decontamination processes have begun at the centre," he added. "In the meantime, all calls have […]

today16 April 2020

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Patients explain concerns around Covid-19 screening

At the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak Wuhan, China the pandemic Covid-19 is slowing down but in South Africa, it has started gaining momentum. Today, the health department announced that there were 150 cases of Covid-19 nationally, since the first diagnosis under two weeks ago. As the virus picks up speed via the second phase of local transmission, the question begs, are local hospitals ready to deal with an influx […]

today19 March 2020

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