The department of science & innovation has made available R12m and will redirect an additional R30m to Covid-19 interventions.
This will include re-purposing and testing a number of existing drugs for efficacy of the potential treatment for Covid-19.
This comes as minister of higher education, science & Innovation Blade Nzimande announced the establishment of Covid-9 teams for the departments.
The higher education team is led by the deputy minister Bhuti Manamela and is comprised of Universities South Africa , South African College Principals Organisation , the South African Union of Students , labour unions, Higher Health and the department of health. "The post-school education and training task team will also make appropriate information available to the institutions in the sector including developing protocol guidelines for institutions," Nzimande said.
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