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Fellow South Africans, an announcement was made yesterday confirming the second case of COVID-19 in South Africa. In that statement, we indicated that the second patient is a direct contact of the first. We further indicated that they were a group of 10 people who had travelled to Italy. We confirm that we traced all […]

The Minister of Health wishes to advise all South Africans that a second case of COVID-19 has now been confirmed in South Africa. The 39 year old lady who is from Gauteng is a direct contact to the first case from KwaZulu-Natal. She was part of the group of 10 that had travelled to Italy.

The Minister of Health, on 05 March 2020, made an official announcement of a local confirmed COVID-19 case in South Africa, of a 38-year old man from KwaZulu-Natal who travelled to Italy.  The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, wishes to clarify that the COVID-19 indicates the

Fellow South Africans This morning, Thursday March 5, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive. The patient is a 38-year-old male who travelled to Italy with his wife. They were part of a group of 10 people and they arrived back in South Africa on March

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, notes rumours circulating on social media, particularly on WhatsApp about a positive COVID-19 case in South Africa.  We wish to assure the public that the rumours are false and in the event of a confirmed COVID-19 case, the Minister of

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, as of 03 March 2020, has tested a total of 164 for SARS-CoV-2 wherein 118 have met the case definition for persons under investigation (PUI) and all tests have come back negative. The NICD confirms that South Africa has not

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, is currently the only laboratory performing testing for SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa and can confirm that the country has not had a case of COVID-19 to date. The institute has tested a total of 121 people for SARS-CoV-2 of whom

As of 25 February 2020, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, has tested a total of 119 people for SARS-CoV-2 of whom 77 met the case definition for persons under investigation (PIU). As of 24 February 2020, all results have been negative. The NICD is currently

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, remains on high alert for an imported case of COVID-19 amid the increased number of cases reported in Italy and South Korea as well as reports of cases and deaths in the Islamic Republic of Iran. These reports suggest that

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service continues to monitor the rapidly evolving developments surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak in several cities in China and other countries in South Asia, North America, Europe and Egypt in Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday confirmed a case of COVID-19