NEW COVID-19 VARIANT DETECTED IN SOUTH AFRICA
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division [...]
SARS-COV-2 VARIANT OF INTEREST, MU (21H / B.1.621)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently (30 August [...]
DETECTION AND FREQUENCY OF THE C.1.2 MUTATED SARS-COV-2 LINEAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA), [...]
UPDATE ON NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (2019-Ncov) OUTBREAK IN WUHAN CITY, HUBEI PROVINCE OF CHINA
On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) China [...]
OUTBREAK OF CARBAPENEM–RESISTANT KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS AT TEMBISA HOSPITAL
What do we know about this outbreak so far? On [...]
STATEMENT ON SALMONELLA CASES IN KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE
During October and November 2018, certain private sector laboratories have [...]
LISTERIOSIS UPDATE
The NICD can confirm that the outbreak of listeriosis that [...]
Statement on a reported “outbreak” of MDR-TB in South Africa
South Africa features amongst the top 30 countries with the [...]
Outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of Congo
Following the announcement of the end of the Ebola virus [...]
Notification of imported cholera case in Gauteng Province
The NICD has confirmed the diagnosis of cholera in a [...]