In line with the mandate of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the Centre for Tuberculosis (CTB) conducts laboratory-based public health surveillance of TB in South Africa, serves as a National TB reference laboratory (NTBRL) and participates in microbiology and epidemiology-oriented training programmes. The CTB also initiates applied public health research aimed at providing enhanced intelligence on the drivers and protective factors that underlie the TB epidemic in South Africa
LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (26 SEPT 2020)
September 26, 2020
As of today, the cumulative number of detected COVID-19 cases is 669 498 with 969