Highlights The WHO has deployed a team of officials to South Africa's Gauteng province, The Gauteng province has accounted for almost 80% of the infections over the past week. The World Health Organization has deployed a team of officials to South Africa's Gauteng province, the epicentre of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, for ramping up surveillance measures and contact tracing …
Johannesburg, South Africa CNN — In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found unusual features in samples they were testing for the coronavirus. “Our first thought was: There goes our quiet December and a Christmas break.” Three weeks later, what the South African scientists had stumbled across would be known worldwide as …
Nomautanda Siduna advises Pretty Mkhabela, an HIV-positive woman, on how to stay as safe as possible amid the added threat of COVID-19 in Ngodwana, South Africa. The Omicron variant, now present in at least 23 countries around the world, was probably incubated in the body of a person with an immune system battered by HIV or another immune-compromising condition that …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The entire series between the Springboks and the British and Irish Lions will be played in Cape Town due to the COVID-19 risks of playing in Johannesburg. To now return to the highveld would expose the series to renewed risk.” Lions managing director Ben Calveley added, “We are fully supportive of this decision which we …
Johannesburg: The Delta variant of COVID-19, identified in at least 85 countries and first detected in India, is likely responsible for the exponentially rising daily number of virus cases in South Africa's economic hub, Gauteng province, a leading epidemiologist has said here. Official data would be released by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases next week, but it is likely …
