After 870 days the NICD will stop posting daily Covid-19 updates

Published on

27 July 2022

For over two years COVID-19 daily updates have been part of our lives.

But the National institute for Communicable Diseases says the present phase of the pandemic, coupled with dwindling COVID-19 case numbers has necessitated a re-evaluation of their daily reporting strategy. Through careful consideration and extensive council, it has been agreed that the reporting of daily COVID-19 surveillance data will conclude on Friday, 29 July 2022.

The reporting of COVID-19 surveillance data, however, including the latest Testing Summary, will continue as per normal with the data being published in the existing weekly surveillance reports.

#COVID19 UPDATE: 8,212 tests were conducted in the last 24hrs, with 521 new cases. Today @HealthZA reports 7 deaths; of which 2 occurred in the past 24–48 hrs. Total fatalities are 101,962 to date: https://t.co/7pHfkgdMA7 pic.twitter.com/SYJ79bfWa0
— NICD (@nicd_sa) July 26, 2022

Liesl Smit

Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm