COVID-19 WRAP | SA records 12,371 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

August 07 2021 - 22:00

SA records 12,371 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

SA recorded 12,371 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative number of cases to 2,523,488 since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

The national death toll increased by 271 Covid-19 related deaths with the total number of deaths at 74,623.

Over 57,000 tests were also conducted over the last 24 hours.

August 07 2021 - 13:58

J&J vaccines from Gqeberha on their way to AU states, says Ramaphosa

The first monthly shipment of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines secured by the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust for AU member states will start arriving on Saturday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced.

“By working together and by pooling resources, African countries have been able to secure millions of vaccine doses produced right here in Africa,” Ramaphosa said in a statement, in his capacity as the AU’s Covid-19 Champion.

“This will provide impetus to the fight against Covid-19 across the continent and will lay the basis for Africa’s social and economic recovery.”

August 07 2021 - 09:40

Epidemic of fatigue hits SA as 82% of Covid-19 survivors say they're in the long haul

Most Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital still have symptoms a month later, according to SA's first study of “long Covid”.

Fatigue was reported by more than two-thirds of the 1,448 people in the study published this week in a National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) bulletin.

August 07 2021 - 09:38

UK PM Johnson won't isolate after staff member's positive Covid test

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not need to self isolate even though a member of his staff on a recent trip to Scotland tested positive for the coronavirus, his Downing Street office said.

Johnson visited a police college in Fife on Wednesday and a wind farm off Aberdeenshire on Thursday.

Local media reported a member of Johnson’s staff who accompanied him to the police college and travelled with him on a plane tested positive for coronavirus.

-Reuters