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World Antimicrobial Awareness Week under the spotlight
November 17, 2020
The National Institute for Communicable (NICD), will commemorate World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) between 18
It’s time to go back to basics in the fight against childhood pneumonia
November 10, 2020
X-ray of the lungs in a 5-year-old child who has pneumonia. Shutterstock Nicole Wolter, National
As the malaria season begins in Southern Africa, COVID-19 complicates the picture
November 6, 2020
Mosquitoes and parasites do not respect country borders. CDC/James Gathan Jaishree Raman, National Institute for
South Africa is testing digital technology to detect outbreaks of respiratory diseases
November 5, 2020
Cheryl Cohen, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Sibongile Walaza, University of the Witwatersrand Global
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This guideline provides guidance for developing tender specifications and procuring the required standard and quality of personal protective equipment (PPE), body bags, disinfectants, alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) and thermometers for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by extreme heterogeneity
in both geography and population across the world. Consequently,
leveraging local data aligned to the unique South African (SA) context is critical.
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With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic passing one million ill people (1 521 252 confirmed cases and 92 798 reported deaths (WHO Sit Rep 10 April), most countries are occupied with controlling the outbreak. The economic consequences are enormous. The World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates that “commerce could shrink up to 32% and warns against 30s-style protectionism” [WTO, 2020]. With no vaccine and no proven effective treatment, the tools available are limited to physical distancing, which includes quarantine and travel restrictions.
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A complete genome sequence was obtained for a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolated from a South African patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), who had returned to South Africa after traveling to Italy.
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