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.…
Coronavirus, Covid-19 lives on certain surfaces for many days. On Copper no virus activity after 4 hours, on standard cardboard for 24 hours, on plastic and stainless steel over 72 hours. From the study abstract: "We found that viable virus could be detected in…