Earlier this week there was a bit of an anomaly in terms of COVID-19 in South Africa, with consecutive days recording the same number of new infections. While it remains unexplained, unfortunately the number of new cases over the past 24 hours has risen to 1 767, according to the latest statistics from the National Department of Health (NDoH).
This brings the country’s total number of COVID-19 infections to date to 674 339, with 608 122 recoveries also being reported by the NDoH. The latter translates to a recovery rate of 90.17 percent, which is a figure it has floated in and around for the past few weeks now.
Hopefully in the coming weeks under alert level 1 lockdown, we can see the the recovery rate inch closer to the 98 percent mark that President Ramaphosa noted in his address to the nation a couple of weeks ago.
Looking at the other crucial statistics, the number of deaths related to COVID-19 have also risen to 16 734, with 67 new fatalities being recorded. At the time of writing, there is no indication of which provinces account for the latest fatalities.
The full breakdown of COVID-19 in South Africa is as follows:
Province | Confirmed Cases | Recoveries | Active cases | Deaths |
Western Cape | 110 739 | 103 612 | 7 127 | 4 182 |
Eastern Cape | 89 204 | 84 574 | 4 630 | 3 124 |
Northern Cape | 16 661 | 13 496 | 2 859 | 207 |
Free State | 46 947 | 33 017 | 13 930 | 1 028 |
KwaZulu-Natal | 119 072 | 110 499 | 8 573 | 2 675 |
North West | 29 318 | 26 384 | 2 934 | 363 |
Mpumalanga | 27 267 | 26 019 | 1 248 | 520 |
Gauteng | 219 704 | 196 169 | 23 535 | 4 244 |
Limpopo | 15 427 | 14 342 | 1 085 | 391 |
Unknown | 0 | |||
TOTAL | 674 339 | 608 112 | 66 227 | 16 734 |
As always, in order to stay up to date with the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and abroad, we advise the following materials and platforms:
- Dr Zweli Mkhize on Twitter
- COVID-19 Connect on WhatsApp – add 0600 123 456 as a contact and say “Hi”.
- World Health Organisation
- SA Coronavirus website
- SA Government
- SA Presidency
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