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Western Cape Premier Alan Winde did not welcome Tuesday’s extension of South Africa’s National State of Disaster on Covid-19 to April 15, saying the move was “unacceptable” to the nation.
South Africans will continue to observe a National State of Disaster on Covid -19 until April 15 following an extension of the emergency by another month by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Tuesday.
South Africa is struggling to use up its 25 million available Covid-19 doses due to the “less severe” nature of the fourth wave of the pandemic in the country, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said on Monday.
Births in health facilities decreased in 45 percent of countries between November and December 2021 compared to the period before the Covid-19 pandemic.
South Africa has recorded less than 1,000 cases of new Covid-19 cases in a year, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 3,674,042 since the pandemic broke out nearly two years ago in the country, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced.
The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Ethiopia has surpassed the 20-million mark with more than 1.5 million shots given on Tuesday.
Africa has developed a new voice in the past two years following the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
The UN health Agency over the weekend announced that Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines.
South Africa is among six African countries selected as the first recipients of technology from the World Health Organisation (WHO) ‘s global mRNA vaccine hub to produce drugs for the Covid-19 disease, the UN agency announced on Friday.
South Africa has extended the National State of Disaster to 15 March, with Cabinet announcing that this will be the last time it will do so after President Cyril Ramaphosa last week announced plans to end the emergency which was imposed two years ago.