NAIROBI, Provision of quality and affordable healthcare services to women, children and adolescents in Africa’s conflict hotspots will be a priority, to avert a humanitarian crisis, senior officials said at a virtual forum.Margaret Agama-Anyetei, actin…
South Africa on Thursday recorded 7 238 new COVID-19, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).Representing a 24.8% positivity rate, the figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 915 258 and the National De…
South Africa has recorded 8 179 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 908 020.This increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate.In a statement on Wednesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NIC…
FREE STATE – The Phuthaditjhaba Crime Intelligence Unit embarked on an intelligence driven in collaboration with Phuthaditjhaba K9 Unit that led to the successful arrest of a wanted suspect who is linked to the alleged murder of three patrollers at
The World Health Organization says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has contracted the disease. It becomes the second case of wild po…
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported that at least 4 344 new COVID-19 cases have been detected over the past 24 hour reporting period.This represents a positivity rate of some 20.34% and brings the cumulative number of i…
South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increase…
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says eight days after the department opened applications for the COVID-19 social relief grant, in excess of 8.1 million people applied for the grant.Zulu said this when she tabled the department’s budget vote du…