The intermediary agency between government and various research institutions supports all university and science council initiatives to combat the global pandemic.

In the past week, there have been complaints from communities that they are being left to starve.

Health authorities are paying particular attention to vulnerable areas where high levels of poverty and high-density living make for the perfect environment for the virus to spread.

The province now has 702 confirmed cases, an increase of 26 in a day.

Pulmonology Professor Coenie Koegelenberg experimented with the idea of performing virtual ward rounds before the country’s lockdown was announced.

Addressing the media on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, said that more than 70 vaccines were also in development.

The two-wheeled bot named Quinton will help reduce the time doctors are physically present with infected patients. Clinical Training Facility

There are currently 2,173 cases of the coronavirus in South Africa, and 25 people have died. Twelve of the COVID-19 related fatalities occurred in KwaZulu-Natal.

Deputy minister of justice and correctional services Phathekile Holomisa, says authorities are still awaiting the test results of other inmates.

Dirco said that at least 3,600 citizens approached its foreign missions seeking assistance to come back home.

Officials said they would assist and prioritise people stuck at airports, students, the elderly and the sick.

Scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseasesand UWC's South African Bioinformatics Institute successfully sequenced the SARS-CoV-2 virus from a South African COVID-19 patient.

Creative Graphics International, which normally makes badges for the automotive industry, was shut due to the lockdown.

As the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the country keeps rising so too are fears that health workers might run out of personal protective equipment like masks and gloves.

The community-based screening and testing process entails community health workers going door-to-door to ask people standard questions.

This after a man claimed on social media that cotton-tipped sticks that would be used to obtain a nasopharyngeal sample for coronavirus testing were already infected with the virus.

Four patients were hospitalised at the facility and waited for the outcome of their COVID-19 test results.

Health officials said that COVID-19 screening and testing would be rolled out to each of the City of Cape Town's eight sub-districts.