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FILE: A City of Tshwane Health official takes a nasal swab to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus on a taxi operator at the Bloed Street Mall in Pretoria Central Business District, on 11 June 2020. Picture: AFP.

South africa coronavirus

SA's daily reported COVID-19 cases surge to 21,584

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said Gauteng accounts for the majority of new cases (59%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West...

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    The continent, relatively spared by the pandemic, is the last except Oceania to reach the threshold of 100,000 deaths, which Europe crossed in April 2020.

    492 days ago
  • FILE: A doctor walks in the Respiratory & Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (RMPRU) at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on 14 July 2020. Picture: AFP.

    South Africa's COVID-19 death toll breaches 30,000 mark

    The Health Department has confirmed 434 more fatalities were recorded over the past 24 hours.

    537 days ago
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    SA’s COVID death toll breaches 22k mark

    The total number of coronavirus infections since the pandemic hit our shores in March sits at over 810,000.

    567 days ago
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    South Africa's COVID-19 death toll nearing 22k mark

    One-hundred-and-sixty fatalities were recorded in the past 24 hours.

    568 days ago
  • Ranger Stian Loubser (R) points at a lioness while driving a couple of tourists from Johannesburg during a guided safari tour at the Dinokeng Game Reserve outside Pretoria, on 7 August 2020. Picture: AFP

    Local tours bring some relief to SA's safari industry

    Visitors have flocked from the capital Pretoria and financial hub Johannesburg since the government allowed South Africans to travel for leisure within their provinces last week.

    687 days ago
  • FILE: Healthcare workers at the bedside of a patient admitted to the Nasrec field hospital in Gauteng during the coronavirus pandemic. Picture: @BandileMasuku/Twitter

    WHO warns of drawn out pandemic as SA cases top 500,000

    Six months after the World Health Organisation declared a global emergency, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 680,000 people and infected more than 17.5 million, according to an AFP tally.

    693 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Now is not the time to let down our guard

    President Cyril Ramaphosa has released a statement to the nation after the country recorded more than half a million confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

    693 days ago
  • FILE: While under level 3 South Africans have more freedom of movement, social distancing is still being practiced in public spaces as one of the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    ‘Don’t make promises’: S. Africans speak out on govt’s lockdown measures

    The stringent measures aimed to curb the spread of the virus give government time to prepare the healthcare system.

    721 days ago
  • People check the menu of a restaurant at the Montecasino complex in Johannesburg, on July 3, 2020. The Italian themed leisure and casino complex has reopened its doors as South Africa has allowed casinos, cinemas and restaurants to resume their activity despite a rise in COVID-19 cases. Picture: AFP

    SA reacts to opening of restaurants as virus cases rise

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    722 days ago
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