Experts at the University of the Free State’s Centre for Environmental Management believe that sewage surveillance would be the easiest and more cost-effective way of tracking infections than mass testing.
The ability to rapidly test for COVID-19 is becoming more important as the world grapples with increasing shortages in laboratory test kits.
The group of 28 healthcare workers will be deployed to two field hospitals. The province is in the process of completing the facilities that will be used to treat patients.
Officials said case numbers have not grown at the same exponential rate as in other regions and the continent has not experienced the high mortality rate.
The Western Cape still has the highest number of COVID-19 infection in the country, with 13,826 cases.
Provincial party leaders responded to the deaths of two police officers in Khayelitsha and Gugulethu who died as a result of the coronavirus this week.
The investigation comes after video that shows police officers drag a mask-wearing woman into a police car after what looks like a verbal disagreement emerged.
Officers tried to stop the two, who were travelling along New Ottery Road without wearing helmets, on Friday.
The opposition party on Friday hosted an online media briefing discussing how government can make sure that children and teachers are safe when teaching and learning resumes.
The ventilator project is one government's interventions aimed at meeting the health system's needs and opening up new economic opportunities.
Ever since the Western Cape became the epicentre of the disease five weeks ago, it's numbers have been climbing steeply.
As some parts of the country are set to move to level 3 lockdown, different levels will be introduced in districts with high numbers of COVID-19 cases.
The teams are made up of military doctors, nurses and support staff helping with screening and testing for the novel coronavirus.
The party has approached the Constitutional Court to challenge the constitutionality of the Disaster Management Act.
The party on Tuesday filed papers arguing Parliament should have a more defined role in the drafting of COVID-19 lockdown regulations.
The party wants effective parliamentary oversight mechanisms to watch the state’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
They're among 217 Cubans who arrived in South Africa last month to help in the response against COVID 19.
Delays in processing results for coronavirus tests threaten this goal, but interventions are underway attempting to unclog bottlenecks in the system.
