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The 2020 influenza season is expected to begin within the next month in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, has updated the influenza recommendations for the vaccination, diagnosis and management of influenza in the country for 2020. The influenza vaccine has no known efficacy against

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, as of 31 March 2020, confirms 46 new additional cases that have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen for COVID-19. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in South Africa to 1 353. Of the 46 newly tested cases,

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service along with the National Department of Health, is actively cleaning COVID-19 patient data to ensure that the information shared with the public is transparent, consistent and correct. Data cleaning is required to deduplicate and to correct details in order to determine

The number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 243 as of 27 March 2020, bringing the total number of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases to 1170. There has also been 1 death related to COVID-19, in the Western Cape. Following the growing number of COVID-19 cases in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service will continue functioning as a reference and surveillance laboratory for COVID-19. This will include resolving and troubleshooting indeterminate and other unusual results as well as providing other reference laboratory functions. In addition, the NICD will conduct testing on routine surveillance samples