As at June 23, more than 4000 people are in hospital for #COVID19 and are receiving different levels of treatment. #ECVisit23June
Union wants outsourcing stopped and workers integrated with health department The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers Union says about 28,000 community health workers were to down tools across the country on Friday. It’s…
SA’s Covid-19 death toll had climbed to 1,354 with a mortality rate of 2.2%, health minister Zweli Mkhize said in an update on Friday evening. “Regrettably, we report a further 70 Covid-19 related deaths: 39 from Western Cape, 30 from the…
The Cuban doctors seconded to SA to help in the fight against Covid-19 will cost the state just over R239m‚ health minister Zweli Mkhize has revealed. Provinces will pay millions more for accommodating the brigade until April 2021. Mkhize…
Health minister Zweli Mkhize will on Saturday receive ventilator machines donated to SA by the US to help in the fight against Covid-19. The Western Cape has shifted to using high-flow nasal oxygen treatment on Covid-19 patients after the…
The number of Covid-19 cases in SA increased by 1,837 in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Friday. This means that there are now 29,240 confirmed cases across SA, with the Western Cape (18,906 — or 64.6%) still…
South Africa’s positive Covid-19 cases climbed to 21,343 with the national death toll rising to 407 on Saturday. Health minister Zweli Mkhize said in an evening update that there had been an additional 10 covid-19 related deaths since the…
SA is now in stage five of an eight-stage programme to manage the Covid-19 pandemic‚ health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday. Stage 5 deals with surveillance to identify and intervene in hotspots‚ spatial monitoring of new cases and…
Nearly 1,000 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in SA in the past 24 hours, as the death toll climbed to 286. The total number of cases had climbed from 15,515 on Sunday to 16,433. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize released the figures on…
Scientists, business and labour have delivered a stark warning to the government to fast-track the easing of lockdown restrictions, saying they are having little or no effect on stemming infections – but are killing the economy. Some…
President Cyril Ramaphosa was concerned by the rising number of Covid-19 infections in the Eastern Cape, he said in Port Elizabeth on Thursday. But after receiving a thorough briefing from politicians and officials in the province, he…
Everyone in the Western Cape who tests positive for Covid-19 will be confined to hospital if doctors are not satisfied they can self-isolate properly. Health minister Zweli Mkhize announced the move at a media briefing on Saturday in Cape…
Health minister Zweli Mkhize is briefing the media on the latest Covid-19 cases in SA. The minister is currently in the Western Cape, which has 4,497 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 88 deaths.
Health minister Zweli Mhkise on Friday night announced that his team would be conducting “oversight visits” in both the Eastern Cape and Western Cape over the weekend, while the president would visit next week, after the two provinces…
“We are sympathetic that this lockdown has been strenuous, and we appreciate your sacrifices” Dr Zweli Mkhize, Health Minister
