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Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa | 26 Jan 2022
Basic demographic information for all deaths registered by the Department of Home Affairs on the National Population Register are provided to the SAMRC. In the context of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it has become essential to track the weekly nu...
World renowned South African scientists and infectious disease epidemiologists at CAPRISA, Professors Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim have been honoured in Vietnam as one of the inaugural recipients of a VinFuture special prize for their ground-bre...
Dr Phiwayinkosi Vusi Dludla, a Specialist Scientist within the SAMRC’s Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform (BRIP) has received the Research Excellence Award for Early Career/Emerging Researchers at the recent National Research Foundation (NFR...
INTRODUCTION
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first reported in Wuhan China in December 2019, is a global pandemic that is threatening the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. To date there have been more than 274 million reported cases...