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19. May 2020
Historical Meeting Between RKI, MRC and NICD
A historical technical collaborative meeting between the RKI and the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and the SA National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) was convened on Covid- 19.
The discussions were based on the agreement by President Ramaphosa and Chancellor Merkel to intensify Covid -19 collaboration.
The South African Department of Health and the South African Embassy together with the German Foreign Ministry were also in attendance.
The world's first heart transplant
was done in South Africa in 1967
by South African Dr Chris Barnard.