MEDIA STATEMENT The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, have sequenced COVID-19 specimens from individuals with a recent travel history to India. The institute can confirm that five of the specimens tested positive for B.1.617.2 (three cases from Gauteng and two from KwaZulu-Natal). The B.1.617.2 variant is … Continue reading COVID-19 UPDATE: NEW VARIANTS DETECTED IN SOUTH AFRICA