Ramaphosa gives thumbs-up to department’s coronavirus tracking
Use of technology with CSIR to look at incidence of pandemic in whole country leaves president ‘hugely impressed’
09 April 2020 - 18:34
President Cyril Ramaphosa said he is “hugely impressed” by the efforts of the department of health and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to use technology to track the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
Ramaphosa visited the health department’s Covid-19 information centre, a data centre set up to monitor and track the spread of the coronavirus, at the CSIR in Pretoria on Thursday where he was briefed on mechanisms to track the government’s response to the pandemic...
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