Twenty healthcare workers will from Monday be deployed to boost the province’s response to the disease.

As a result of progress made on South Africa's screening, testing and tracing campaign, the National Health Laboratory Service is inundated with tests needing to be processed.

From the end of May, government is introducing a district-based approach to the lockdown, depending on the number of COVID-19 cases concentrated in the area.

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that districts would be assigned individual lockdown levels to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Officials said they were working with Madagascar’s government to ascertain the efficacy of a plant-based tonic developed in the country.

The province has been flagged as a cause for concern and over R50 million is being spent on the building of isolation facilities at hospital including in the Alfred Nzo, Amathole and Chris Hani Districts.

The Eastern Cape Department of Public Works and Infrastructure is upgrading 28 healthcare facilities in the province’s six regions.

The nurses and other workers at Tygerberg Hospital staged a demonstration at an event to mark International Nurses Day, demanding more personal protective equipment and better support while performing their duties.

Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo commended nurses for their invaluable contribution to the healthcare sector.

The demonstrators are demanding that they get proper personal protective equipment to carry out their duties.

Experts from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Stellenbosch University have collaborated to grow a pure culture of the virus.

Experts from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Stellenbosch University (SU) have obtained samples from COVID-19 patients at Tygerberg Hospital.

The province has had more than 22 COVID-19 deaths and over 1,200 cases.

Researcher at the Institute for Economic Justice, Busi Sibeko, says there should then be better alignment between economic growth and employment.

The investment vehicle was deemed an excluded asset in a 2019 South Gauteng High Court ruling.

Head of the provincial Department of Health Dr Keith Cloete said additional COVID-19 testing and triage centres would also be set up across the province ahead of the anticipated rise in the number of cases.

Preliminary data shows that over Gauteng, nitrogen dioxide concentrations decreased by 23% and sulfur dioxide by 47%.

There have been 1,835 COVID-19 deaths recorded on the continent.