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South Africa needs to test 12 times more people per day for the new coronavirus than it currently does. Our testing plan can only do this if we use a wider range of tests — including controversial ones.

The virus at the centre of South Africa’s coronavirus outbreak may be new, but the idea that criminalising a disease can stop its spread isn’t — and we’d do well to heed the history books.

A reference tool for communicators and organisers to better engage vulnerable communities during the coronavirus pandemic.Publication title: COVID-19: How to include marginalised and...

Summary of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) updated coronavirus testing criteria for healthcare workers.

An updated version of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ (NICD) reference guide for health workers testing for the new coronavirus.

South Africa's Coronavirus National Command Council will update the nation on the revised lockdown regulations today, Thursday 2 April 2020.

As South Africa's coronavirus lockdown enters its second week, the country will start testing for the new virus in communities. The move is expected to be only one of many South Africa will make in a bid to test tens of thousands for the new coronavirus.

In a grim news cycle, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize’s announcement yesterday that the country is evaluating rapid tests for the new coronavirus is something to celebrate.

Would you risk your life for R 3 500? These community health workers have been doing just that for years.

It’s available and it’s affordable. But science still doesn’t know enough to back the antimalarial drug chloroquine for widespread use against the new coronavirus. A new trial in South Africa may change that at home — and abroad.

A response to the novel coronavirus from the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services: directives on digital technologies and access to information during South Africa’s national state of disaster and lockdown.

Around the world, SARS-CoV-2 has stopped everyday life dead in its tracks. The virus has also scratched open old wounds between the health department and community health workers, a cadre essential to the fight against the pandemic.

Both the United States and South Africa have punted increased border security as a way to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Here's why South Africa should be thinking less about walls and more about amnesty as cases mount.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will today, Monday, 30 March 2020, address the nation on the measures currently being undertaken to contain the Coronavirus pandemic.

Guidelines on how we navigate home and work during the coronavirus pandemic.

Author(s): National Institute for Communicable Diseases (David Anderson, Lucille Blumberg, Cheryl Cohen, Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha, Shaheen Mehtar, Natalie Mayet, Jeremy Nel).Publication date: 27 MarchWhat:These are...