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President Cyril Ramaphosa during the opening of the department of health's central Covid-19 Information Hub at the CSIR in Pretoria on 9 April 2020. News24 files application to the Department of Health to gain access to advisories, notes and correspondence between the department and scientists as well as detailed Covid-19 data.Repeated requests to the department…

Number of COVID-19 hospitalizations drops below 500 in Massachusetts; state reports 17 new deaths The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 177 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.In addition, the DPH confirmed 17 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 8,201.Click here to see a graphical…

July 18, 2020 | 9:06am | Updated July 18, 2020 | 9:18am Enlarge Image Coronavirus swab samples sit in a testing laboratory in Glasgow, Scotland. Jane Barlow/Pool via Getty Images The coronavirus has six strains and each can be identified by a cluster of symptoms that could help doctors identify patients with severe cases, a…

July 18, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETJoan Murray had been home with Covid-19 for about a week when she ran into trouble. She had a fever of 103 degrees and chills that sent shivers up and down her spine. Her oxygen levels were dropping, and the tightness in her chest felt “as if somebody had bound…

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. As of 17 July, South Africa has a total of 337 594 confirmed Covid-19 cases.Gauteng has recorded 123 408 cases.There were 135 new Covid-19 related deaths, taking the death toll to 4 804.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Friday said there had been 13 373 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing…