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All UKZN co-workers and fellow students who had direct contact with the staff member and student have been asked to self-isolate by staying at home for the next 14 days.Image: Sunday Times

UKZN medical student and staffer test positive for Covid-19

A University of KwaZulu-Natal medical student and a staff member have both tested positive for Covid-19. The university confirmed on Tuesday that the student, based at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, had been taken for medical…

Participants in a survey believe Covid-19 is exaggerated and that the virus has declined.Image: 123RF/Jarun Ontakrai

26 test positive for Covid-19 at Mediclinic Cape Town

Twenty-six people have tested positive for Covid-19 at Mediclinic Cape Town, management confirmed. “Nearly 300 potential contacts have been tested, with the majority of these returning negative results,” Dr Stefan Smuts, the chief…

The good news is that both mother and newborn are well, have been discharged and are recovering at home.Image: 123RF / maridav

Durban woman with Covid-19 gives birth to ‘positive’ baby

A Durban woman who tested positive for Covid-19 when she was admitted to hospital for the birth of her baby last week is recovering at home with her newborn, who also tested positive for the virus after delivery. The Ahmed Al Kadi private…

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Funeral parlour workers test positive for Covid-19

Two people who work at the funeral parlour that conducted the doomed March 21 funeral in Majola village, Port St Johns, have tested positive for Covid-19. Eight more workers, at Mfolozi Funeral Parlour’s Port St Johns branch, have already…

All entrances to St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban were closed after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases that infected patients and health workers.Image: Sandile Ndlovu

KZN department of health gives beleaguered Durban hospital a week to move dialysis patients

The KwaZulu-Natal health department has given St Augustine’s hospital a week to move dialysis patients out of its centre after several patients there tested positive for Covid-19. The centre, which is housed in a building separate from…

Inmates at St Albans fear that Covid-19 will spread rapidly now that a warder has tested positiveImage: SUPPLIED

Inmates say failure to test them could see virus ‘explode’ at St Albans after warder tests positive

As a warder at St Albans Correctional Centre in Port Elizabeth tested positive for Covid-19, prisoners are fuming that they were only asked simple questions about their health despite some showing symptoms for the coronavirus. The total…