MEDIA STATEMENT DELIVERED BY MINISTER OF POLICE, GENERAL BHEKI CELE AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, MR RONALD LAMOLA ON THE OCCASION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COVID-19 DISASTER MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS; HELD ON FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2020 AT GCIS PRETORIA The background that informs…
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADVICE FOR THE PUBLIC If you are not in an area where COVID-19 is spreading or have not travelled from an area where COVID-19 is spreading or have not been in contact with an infected patient, your risk of infection…
Table 1. Countries, territories or areas with reported laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. Data as of 16 March 2020* Reporting Country // Total Transmission confirmed // confirmed new reported case…
Pretoria, South Africa, 16 March 2020 - Tennis South Africa (TSA) has on Monday announced a suspension of all their tournaments until 20th April following President Cyril Ramaphosa declaring a national state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic. Following Sunday's announcement and based on discussions…
From the new RRA: A high level of public awareness is a prerequisite for an effective response with social distancing measures to the COVID-19 outbreak. Risk communication activities should emphasise that although this is a new and highly contagious disease, the vast majority of infected…
The UE-CDC released a new RRA (no 6) on Covid-19 (Novel coronavirus disease 2019) Summary extracted from the RRA: On 31 December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology was reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. On 9 January 2020, China CDC reported…
COVID-19 (The CO stands for corona, the VI for virus and the D for disease), with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as the causative virus. South Africa, like many other countries around the world, has reported its first case of the virus and…
Pretoria, South Africa, 13 March 2020 - The ongoing effects of COVID-19 were felt by the tennis community on Thursday afternoon, when the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced a six week suspension of tournaments due to escalating concerns…
WHO Director-General Outside of China reiterated that countries should not give up on stopping the outbreak now 44 067 confirmed (6703 new) that WHO has characterized it as a pandemic. A shift from containment to 1440 deaths (310 new) mitigation would be wrong and dangerous.…