Health department scraps daily Covid-19 updates due to 'reduced severity and transmissibility'

The Department of Health will no longer release daily Covid-19 reports.

Instead, it will release weekly reports.

In a statement, it said daily reports would no longer be released "due to the reduced severity and transmissibility of the disease at the current moment, coupled with declining Covid-19 case numbers".

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The department and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) decided that it was justifiable to allow members of the reporting structures to return to their permanent jobs on a full-time basis, after releasing the reports daily since 2020.

However, the department cautioned that it "doesn't mean the pandemic is over".

It said:

More than four million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in South Africa.

On Sunday, the last daily report indicated that 354 new cases were reported.