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No more Covid-19 testing for ‘healthy’ Cape Town residents

If you are younger than 55‚ don’t have a chronic illness and live in Cape Town‚ then you’re not going to be tested for Covid-19 – even if you develop symptoms. This as the Western Cape government tightens its testing regulations because…

Mobile Covid-19 testing van will be in Port Alfred on Thursday April 9

Message to come out of the Ndlambe Covid-19 JOC meeting: Dr Mark Downey of Port Alfred Hospital said a Mobile Covid-19 testing van will be in Port Alfred tomorrow (April 9). It was agreed that the van would be at Nomzamo High School at…

Eastern Cape health department slams fake Covid-19 kit video

Eastern Cape health department has blasted a video of a man urging people to refuse being tested for Covid-19 has gone viral. On Monday morning, provincial health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the video has caused unnecessary…

Testing for Covid-19 involves an uncomfortable nasopharyngeal swab. Image: Robin Utrecht/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Health expert: ‘There is an urgent need to upscale Covid-19 testing facilities’

The total number of people testing positive for the deadly coronavirus in SA is “an underestimate of the burden of Covid-19″. This is the view of Shabir Madhi, a professor of vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, who…

Water results – as of January 10 2019

The long-awaited water results are now available on the Ndlambe website under ‘Notices”. www.ndlambe.gov.za –> Notice Board –> Notices Check them out.