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Eight more people have died of COVID-19 in Minnesota, health officials reported Sunday. COVID-19 has caused 1,425 deaths across the state, according to data posted Sunday morning by the Minnesota Department of Health. Residents of long-term care and assisted-living facilities accounted for six of the newly announced deaths. The net count for positive test results…

Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Mopani district is now the epicentre of coronavirus cases in Limpopo.Out of 866 cases in the province, the number of infections in that district is 147.Monitoring will continue in the province.There has been yet another "cluster outbreak" of Covid-19 cases in Limpopo, with the Mopani district now identified as…

A worker sanitises a classroom. The Limpopo Coronvirus Command Council says it has received more than 700 applications from teachers claiming to have comorbidities that prevent them from returning to work on 6 July.It has only granted 400 teachers permission not to report for duty.The provincial education believes that some of the medical certificates are…

It's not an understatement to say that the entire nation's hopes are focused on what's happening in a Maryland laboratory – step one in manufacturing a potential coronavirus vaccine.Sean Kirk, executive vice president of Emergent BioSolutions, explained to correspondent Martha Teichner how a bioreactor is used to create the ingredients needed in the development and…

A meeting between taxi representatives and Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula over loading capacity and inter-provincial travel restrictions has been postponed.  This is so that the National Coronavirus Command Council can discuss their proposals and make a decision.Taxi operators are not happy about it dragging on for so long and are holding an urgent meeting to decide…