SA to step up surveillance for novel coronavirus
Health minister Zweli Mkhize says the NICD has activated an emergency operations centre, but there are no plans to impose travel restrictions
31 January 2020 - 08:53
SA has activated the emergency operations centre at the National Institutes of Communicable Disease (NICD) and stepped up surveillance for the new respiratory illness that emerged in China earlier in January, but has no immediate plans to impose travel restrictions or repatriate its citizens, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.
His comments follow the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration on Thursday night that the novel coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCov, is a global health emergency of international concern, after the number of new cases rose more than tenfold during the past week...
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