Cities & COVID-19

• Mabuyane launches mass coronavirus-testing campaign – 3 April 2020
• Pakati gets tested as screening rolls out in BCM – 8 April 2020
• More than 4000 water tanks delivered to stressed communities – 16 April 2020
• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa – 14 May 2020
• Covid-19: Mercedes to use machines to produce shields and breathing devices – 17 May 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

• Nestlé Donates over 200 000 Litres of Clean Water for COVID-19 relief efforts in Mossel Bay – 21 May 2020
• First look inside the CTICC as it gets converted into a 850-bed field hospital – 25 May 2020
• MSF (Doctors Without Borders) opens new COVID-19 Khayelitsha field hospital in partnership with the Department of Health – 1 June 2020
• These are Cape Town and Joburg’s coronavirus hotspots as level 3 kicks in – 2 June 2020
• Cape municipalities have altered their budgets to ‘help the vulnerable’ – 17 June 2020
• Western Cape building a ‘mass-fatality’ facility for Covid-19 corpses – 25 June 2020
• ENGEN pledges R1m fuel to FoodForward SA – 30 June 2020
• Brackengate: A look inside the Western Cape’s new field hospital – 1 July 2020
• 60 bakers, 1 mission-feeding grateful doctors, nurses on exhausting Covid shifts – 2 July 2020
• Cape Flats community receives donation of over 3000 cloth face masks – 4 July 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

• Companies to team up to donate to food bank – 14 May 2020
• Clinic gives free Covid-19 testing and screening – 16 May 2020
• Metro to disinfect Ekurhuleni’s 25 taxi ranks – 17 May 2020
• City of Ekurhuleni Officials donate over R1.4m towards Solidarity Fund – 7 July 2020

• City of Joburg rolls out virus protection measures – 19 March 2020
• Nascre Expo Centre to be used for Covid-19 cases – 18 April 2020
• ENGEN helps Educate Communities about COVID-19 Pandemic – 5 May 2020
• SASOL hands over Covid-19 supplies to City of Johannesburg – 6 May 2020
• City moves to cushion ratepayers from COVID-19 blows – 7 May 2020
• Joburg has slowed spread of Covid-19, parliamentary committee hears – 14 May 2020
• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa – 14 May 2020
• Heineken South Africa Donates R1m in PPE to Healthcare Heroes and Covid-19 impacted communities – 15 May 2020
• Plans to convert Soccer City into a state of the art Covid-19 field hospital – 16 May 2020
• City of Johannesburg receives donations of 25 000 masks – 19 May 2020
• POLO to Donate 50 000 cloth mask to City of Joburg – 21 May 2020
• These are Cape Town and Joburg’s coronavirus hotspots as level 3 kicks in – 2 June 2020
• Alliance Based on Compassion Gives Rise to Surplus-driven Movement – 3 June 2020
• Wits announces SA’s first Covid-19 vaccine trial, first participant to be enrolled this week – 23 June 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• City of Johannesburg invites tech startups to submit Covid-19 mitigation ideas – 7 July 2020
• City opens 21 clinics as testing sites for Covid-19 – 9 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa– 14 May 2020
• DEFY donates essential appliances to COVIDS-19 hospitals to assist with healthcare heroes– 18 May 2020
• COVID-19: BMW, Nissan collaboration for field hospital in Rosslyn – 21 May 2020
• Coronavirus testing site launched Forest Hill City Mall in Centurion – 26 May 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

• ENGEN helps Educate Communities about COVID-19 Pandemic – 5 May 2020
• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa – 14 May 2020
• Municipality insures the safety of homeless – 21 May 2020
• Durban furniture company saves nearly a hundred jobs pivoting to PPE – 26 June 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• How eThekwini Municipality plans to help businesses survive Covid-19 induced economic downturn – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020
• COVID-19 Relief Packages – 8 August 2020

• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa – 14 May 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa – 14 May 2020
• City commits to help local ventilator maker gets states attention – 28 May 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

• ENGEN helps Educate Communities about COVID-19 Pandemic – 5 May 2020
• Eastern Cape receives boost as VW plant to be converted into 4000-bed field hospital – 8 May 2020
• Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium to be used as Covid-19 isolation zone – 12 May 2020
• Novartis SA Donates R13.3 million towards COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 May 2020
• Nestlé announces donation towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa – 14 May 2020
• CNN explores how South Africa has kept its COVID-19 death toll low. – 6 July 2020
• Solidarity Fund will buy R405m worth of medical equipment for hard-hit provinces – 11 July 2020

The South African Council for City Data (SACCD) have launched a Covid-19 Data Mapping open repository. To view this click here.

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• United Cities and Local Governments [UCLG] – Click here
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• Iran issues mandatory mask order after coronavirus death toll surges – 5 July 2020
• Regeneron starts Phase 3 trial of Covid antibody drug that might treat and prevent infection, company says. – 7 July 2020
• Operation warp speed commits $1.6 billion to Covid-19 vaccine maker Novavax – 7 July 2020
• Coronavirus in Australia: Melbourne returns to lockdown as cases surge – 7 July 2020