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SA closes in on 1 million Covid-19 cases, with 14,700 recorded in 24 hours: SA is likely to hit one million confirmed Covid-19 cases this weekend, after more than 14,000 new cases were recorded in a 24-hour period for the third straight day.
14,796 new COVID-19 cases recorded in SA, 293 more related deaths: There has been a spike in infections in the Western Cape, Gauteng, and KwaZulu-Natal with more than 150,000 active cases around the country.
Concerns mount as SA nears 1-mln COVID-19 mark: This comes as the second wave of the coronavirus sweeps over the country. The Director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Research Innovation Platform, Professor Tulio De Oliviera says the new …
3 new lockdown changes you may have missed – including longer beach time and licence extensions: Government departments gazetted a couple of changes to the current lockdown regulations under the Disaster Management Act, which make slight changes to the restrictions currently in effect.
Is the coronavirus variant in South Africa more dangerous than the UK strain?: Britain’s Matt Hancock says he believes the virus variant in South Africa is “yet more transmissible” than the UK strain. But is that claim supported by the evidence?
The new coronavirus variant in South Africa: Are concerns justified?: First identified in Nelson Mandela Bay, along South Africa’s east coast, it spread rapidly to other districts in the Eastern Cape, and to the Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal (KZN) provinces.
New coronavirus strains identified in South Africa, Nigeria: New coronavirus strains have been identified in two African countries (South Africa and Nigeria) dealing a blow to the already developed COVID-19 vaccines.
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: Sardine Run – An extraordinary natural phenomenon, that is witnessed annually on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, during late autumn or early winter, is the “sardine run”. Also referred to as “the greatest shoal on earth”, the sardine run occurs when millions of sardines migrate from their spawning grounds south of the southern tip of Africa, northwards along the Eastern Cape coastline towards KwaZulu-Natal, following a path close inshore, often resulting in many fish washing up on beaches along the coast. The huge shoal of tiny fish can stretch for many kilometres and is followed and preyed upon by thousands of predators, including game fish, sharks, dolphins and seabirds. Usually the shoals break up and the fish disappear into deeper water around Durban. Many questions surrounding this exceptional event remain unanswered.
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South African health workers stretched as COVID-19 infections near 1 million