London, Jan. 5, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Mortuaries in South Africa are reportedly over flown with dead bodies of victims of coronavirus as the country battles a second wave and a new variant of the Covid-9 virus Now South Africa’s national broadcasting station, SABC, reports that funeral parlour owners say they are battling to cope with the high ...

London, Jan. 4, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South Africans should expect mass rollout of covid-19 in February as the country scouts the world to buy the most essential commodity for its desperate citizens The first doses of vaccine from the World Health Organisation’s COVAX facility had only been expected to be available in the country around April but ...

London, Jan. 3, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South Africa’s Covid-19 death toll reached 29 175 deaths on Saturday. This, after 288 more Covid-19 related deaths were reported on New Year’s Day. READ ALSO: AMID SHORTAGES, SCIENTISTS WEIGH BENEFITS OF A SINGLE COVID-19 DOSES VERSUS TWO In addition, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, in his daily Covid-19 statement revealed that ...

London, Jan. 2, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Over 100 babies were born in South Africa on the first day of 2021 . The baby boom wipe away the gloom of tight restrictions imposed by the country few day to the new year over rising coronavirus epidemic While the headlines might be about the 418 souls lost to covid ...

London, Jan. 2, 2021 (AltAfrica)-On the first of the 2021 South Africa recorded 16 726 new cases of Covid-19 and 418 more Covid-19 related deaths, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Friday. The cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in South Africa is now 1 073 887 and the the total detected deaths has reached 28 ...

London, Dec. 28, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South Africa on Sunday reached one million cumulative cases of Covid-19, with a cumulative total of 1 004 413 cases reported, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said. The grim milestone comes just nine days after the country, the worst hit in the continent, reported 900 000 cases. The country had taken two ...

London, Dec. 24, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A new 120mw of wind energy projected to serve about 125,000 households in South Africa has been connected to the country’s national grid The latest addition to the national grid is part of the government’s most recent Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPPP) bid round, which is set to collectively ...

London, Dec. 22, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The new covid-19 variant currently causing panic and concern in the United Kingdom and the European Union has been identified in Nigeria by scientists at the Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), at the Redeemers University in Ede, Osun State. The new variant, detected in the UK ...

London, Dec. 22, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Cases of the new covid variant spreading rapidly in the UK have been confirmed in Denmark, Italy, Gibraltar, the Netherlands and Australia France and South Africa also believe they have cases of the mutation – known as VUI-202012/01 French health minister Olivier Veran said it is “entirely possible” the new variant is already circulating ...

London, Dec. 18, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The Director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Research Innovation Platform, Professor Tulio De Oliviera, has confirmed that a new variant of the coronavirus has been identified in South Africa and it is spreading rapidly. This comes as the second wave of the coronavirus sweeps over the country. Professor De Oliviera was part of the ...