Browsing: CORONAVIRUS
South Africa registered 536 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number to 3,979,126 since the first patient was recorded in the country in March 2020, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has said.
The World Bank has loaned US$507 million to South Africa for use in the country’s Covid-19 Emergency Response Project aimed at combating the worldwide pandemic, APA learnt here on Tuesday.
South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed only 726 new Covid-19 cases on Monday.
South Africans aged 50 or more are now eligible to receive an additional booster dose of Pfizer vaccine with effect from Monday, the Ministry of Health has announced.
Some 3,255 Covid-19 vaccine doses were dispensed in South Africa on Sunday – bringing the total number of vaccines to 36,020,076, the Ministry of Health has said.
A total of 35,744,528 Covid-19 vaccine jabs have been administered in South Africa since the vaccination programme started in February 2021, the health ministry said.
Over 56,000 Covid-19 vaccines were administered on Tuesday in South Africa, comprising 14,409 Johnson & Johnson shots and 42,360 Pfizer jabs, a health institute has said.
The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of progress in poverty reduction on the continent, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said on Saturday in a report.
South Africa’s Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu on Friday said her office had allocated nearly US$3 billion in Covid-19 social relief grants to over 8.1 million people in the past few weeks.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged global agencies to assist in boosting the local manufacturing and production of Covid-19 vaccines by procuring vaccines and boosters from African manufacturers of the product.