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South Africa set to surpass COVID’s first wave peak

South Africa set to surpass COVID’s first wave peak

THE rate of coronavirus infections in South Africa will soon surpass the peak hit in the first wave earlier in the year, the health ministry has warned, as the country battles a new, faster-spreading variant of the respiratory disease. Positive cases increased by 14,046, pushing total infections to 954,258, the ministry said. The positivity rate - or the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that are actually positive - was at 26%, around double the average rate of infection the country had seen before December when the virus showed signs of waning. South Africa's health department has identified a new…
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Poorer countries to get 120 million $5 coronavirus tests, WHO says

Poorer countries to get 120 million $5 coronavirus tests, WHO says

EMMA FARGE and KATE KELLAND SOME 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for coronavirus will be made available to low- and middle-income countries at a maximum of $5 each, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.  The wider availability of quick, reliable and inexpensive testing will help 133 countries to track infections and contain the spread, closing the gap with wealthy ones, it said. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the manufacturers Abbott and SD Biosensor had agreed with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to "make 120 million of these new, highly portable and easy-to-use rapid COVID-19 diagnostic tests available…
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