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Community screening got underway in two communities over the weekend (Happy Valley and Ilitha Park) and rolled out in a further five today. A total of 1492 people were screened over the weekend, and 45 swabs taken. Minister of Health, Nomafrench Mbombo said: “We must ensure that our vulnerable communities are screened and tested in greater numbers to ensure our people are protected against the spread of the COVID-19 disease. I was at Mbekweni in

Researchers from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and UWC’s South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) have sequenced the first SARS-COV-2 genome in South Africa. They say it provides a genetic “fingerprint” that can help us understand – and contain – the spread of COVID-19. More sequencing, more analysis will follow. “This work will be an important part in giving our colleagues at the NICD and in the public health sector more tools to

The Department of Social Development (DSD) has made an additional R35 million available for food relief programmes from Provincial Treasury allocations, to widen our existing nutritional safety net to reach an extra estimated 215 520 beneficiaries with cooked meals and food parcels, as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic. This is over and above its existing daily provision of food to approximately 100 000 people. The 50 000 extra food parcels, which will support

Provincial Treasury has approved the allocation of R53 million additional funding for emergency food relief programmes that will run across the Western Cape. Premier of the Western Cape, Alan Winde said: “We know that the lockdown is tough on everyone and is impacting on the livelihoods of many families across the Western Cape. That is why we are working hard to ensure that no-one goes hungry during this difficult time and that we are all

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