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Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi is to give a briefing about the surging third wave of Covid-19 after an emergency meeting of the national coronavirus command council on Saturday.
26 June 2021 - 11:36 Acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the national coronavirus command council is locked in an emergency meeting on June 26 2021. Image: Freddy Mavunda Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi is to give a briefing about the surging third wave of Covid-19 after an emergency meeting of the national coronavirus command council on Saturday. The 1pm briefing was arranged at short notice amid concern that the third wave is being driven by the Delta variant of the infection that originally emerged in India. TimesLIVE understands that p...
Mandy Wiener interviews Western Cape health boss Dr Keith Cloete about the province's preparedness for Wave 3.
Phase 2 of South Africa’s vaccine rollout already hitting roadblocks: report Subscribe South Africa’s vaccine rollout programme is struggling to get off the ground, despite plans for its start on Monday, 17 May. According to the City Press, the programme has experienced low registration rates in the target group – those aged 60 and over, or with comorbidities – while those who have registered have not yet received any information on what to do. The second phase of the rollout is scheduled to start on Monday, with the government targetting approximately 16.6 million vaccinations over s...