A total of 13 health-care workers, including 11 doctors, have been confirmed to have the coronavirus
, but none appeared to have been infected by patients, he said in a statement issued as SA neared the end of the second day of the three-week national lockdown ordered by President Cyril Ramaphosa to try and curb the spread of the disease.
"We therefore plead for the understanding of all South Africans who may unfortunately not have access to the flu vaccine this year," he said. So far only one person is believed to have died from the coronavirus in SA. Gauteng remains the epicentre of SA’s outbreak, with 533 cases. Western Cape has 271, and KwaZulu-Natal 156. Free State has 68 cases, Limpopo has 11, Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape each have 10, while the North West has 6 and Northern Cape has 5. However, 117 cases are unallocated to provinces, because the paperwork for these patients was incomplete.
The Solidarity trial will investigate remdesivir, which was previously used in an Ebola trial, the HIV/AIDS medicine lopinavir/ritonavir; a combination of lopinavir/ritonafir and interferon beta-1a used for multiple sclerosis; and the malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
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